Definition that contains unstress
- rhythm the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
- pyrrhic a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
- pyrrhic of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables
- iamb a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
- schwa a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
- dactyl a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
- iambus a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
- trochee a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
- aphesis the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'
- amphibrach a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')