unstressed

Adjective

unstressed (comparative more unstressed, superlative most unstressed)

1. Not stressed or accentuated.
   • Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.2004 October 14, Don Ringe, “Old English maþelian, mæþlan, mǣlan”, in J. H. W. Penney, editor, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN...
   • Due to the shape of the aspect infixes, ‹er› and ‹ol›, it is possible for the pseudovowels to occur immediately after their consonantal counterpart, as in *p‹ol›lltxe. When this happens in an unstressed syllable, the pseudovowel disappears, poltxe.2024 August 27, William S. Annis, “A Reference Grammar of Na’vi”, in Learn Na'vi, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025, page 14
2. Not subject to stress.