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accentless

US/ˈæk.sɛnt.ləs/

accentless adjective: speaking without an accent.

Adjective

accentless (comparative more accentless, superlative most accentless)

  1. Speaking without an accent.
  2. Spoken without an accent.
    • “You were looking up my skirt,” she said flatly, in accentless English.2009, Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal, Picador (2015), page 126
  3. Not having any stress (accent).
  4. Having no accent marks.
    Synonyms:
    unaccented
  5. Having no diacritical marks of any kind.

accentless meaning in Sanskrit

accentless in Sanskrit

accentless, having the neutral general tone neither high nor low
अनुदात्त anudātta

Synonyms of accentless

Forms of accentless

comparativemore accentless
superlativemost accentless

Origin of accentless

From accent + -less.

Words formed from accentless

Questions about accentless

What does accentless mean?
Accentless means speaking without an accent.
What is accentless in Sanskrit?
Accentless in Sanskrit is अनुदात्त (anudātta). See Accentless meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is accentless?
Accentless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce accentless?
Accentless is pronounced /ˈæk.sɛnt.ləs/ (US).

Words near accentless in the dictionary

  1. accented
  2. accentedly
  3. accentedness
  4. accenting
  5. accentism
  6. accentless
  7. accentlessly
  8. accentlessness
  9. accentmark
  10. accentmarks
  11. accentologic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: accentless (page history and authors); अनुदात्त (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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