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Unstressed

Definition: Unstressed

Unstressed

Adjective

1. Not bearing a stress or accent; "short vowels are unstressed".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Unstressed

DomainDefinition

Metallurgy

Not bearing a significant external load. Source: European Union. (references)

Transportation

Not bearing significant external load. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Unstressed

Synonym: unaccented (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: stressed (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unstressed

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Repose

Unstressed.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unstressed

English words defined with "unstressed": aphesispyrrhicrhythmschwa, shwa, speech rhythm, stressed. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unstressed": hard-coal plowIN-BEAT. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unstressed

"Unstressed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unstressed" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%9633,456

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unstressed

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unstressed

7

syllable unstressed

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unstressed

Language Translations for "unstressed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i patheksuar, i patendosur. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سعيد (auspicious, blessed, blissful, blithe, carefree, felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate, gay, glad, happy, happy go lucky, high, in high spirits, joyful, joyous, lucky, merry, pi, pollyanna, providential, thankful, upbeat), ‏بهيج (airy, cheerful, convivial, festive, glad, happy, lovely, merry, shiny). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неударен (light, short, stressless, unaccented, weak), ненатоварен (empty, loose). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nepřízvuèný, bez dùrazu. (various references)

   

Danish

  

ubelastet (non-load carrying), spændingsløs (dead). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spanningvrij, spanningloos, onbelast (non-load carrying). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

بی تشویش , بدون کشش (Inelastic), بدون اضطراب . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kuormittamaton (non-load carrying), jännityksetön. (various references)

   

French

  

non travaillant, inaccentué, exempt de contrainte, atone (unimpressive). (various references)

   

German

  

unbelastet (guiltless, unencumbered, unladen, unloaded), spannungsfrei (relaxed). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μη καταπονούμενο (non-load carrying), μη φέρον (non-load carrying), άνευ τάσεων. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hangsúlytalan (proclitic, unaccented). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scarico (discharge, discharging, drainage, dumping, escape, exhaust, flat, outgo, outlet, plughole, unloaded, unloading), esente da tensioni, che non lavora (non-load carrying), atono (atonic, weak). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

essedunstray

   

Portuguese

  

não acentuado (unaccented). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

neaccentuat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

безударный (atonic, unaccented). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nenaglašen (atonic, unaccented). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

no trabajando (non-load carrying), no forzado (non-load carrying), exento de tensiones, átono (atonic, inert). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svagtonig, spänningslös (dead), obetonad (short). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vurgusuz (atonic, offbeat, unaccented), gerilmemiş (unstrained, unstretched). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ненаголошений (atonic, unaccented), непідкреслений. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không nhấn mạnh (atonic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unstressed

Misspellings

"Unstressed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: uncaressed, unthreshed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unstressed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-r-s-s-s-t-u"

-1 letter: sederunts, undersets, undresses.

-2 letters: dentures, desserts, duresses, estruses, rudeness, sederunt, stressed, sundress, sureness, trueness, underset, unrested, unstress.

-3 letters: densest, denture, deserts, dessert, dresses, dueness, dusters, endures, ensured, ensures, nesters, neuters, redness, renests, resends, resents, retuned, retunes, russets, senders, sudsers, sunders, sunsets, tenders, tenured, tenures, tressed, tresses, trussed, trusses, tureens, tussers, undress, undrest, unrests.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-r-s-s-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: outsiderness, rotundnesses, sturdinesses, turbidnesses, turgidnesses.

 

+3 letters: adventuresses, conductresses, desultoriness, dexterousness, disbursements, outwardnesses.

 

+4 letters: disruptiveness, droughtinesses, obduratenesses, outsidernesses, surefootedness, tremendousness, untowardnesses, uprootednesses.

 

+5 letters: adventurousness, deleteriousness, dessertspoonful, destructiveness, desultorinesses, dexterousnesses, distressfulness, reductivenesses, subordinateness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unstressed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 73 74 72 65 73 73 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ...    -    .-.    .    ...    ...    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0074 0072 0065 0073 0073 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55808586847185857170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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