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ACCENTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accented mean? 

ACCENTED (adjective)
  The adjective ACCENTED has 2 senses:

1. (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitchplay

2. bearing a stress or accentplay

  Familiarity information: ACCENTED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ACCENTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch

Synonyms:

accented; tonic

Context example:

a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word


Sense 2

Meaning:

Bearing a stress or accent

Synonyms:

accented; stressed

Context example:

an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in 'delay'

Similar:

emphasised; emphasized; emphatic (spoken with emphasis)

masculine ((music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable)


 Context examples 


The new moon of October 27 accented your solar fourth house of home, and often that would be a good development, but that was not likely last month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The kind of funds that will be accented will be your earned income. (Don’t buy lotto tickets—that’s covered by a different part of the horoscope.) It seems a confidential talk or interview you had earlier this month will now lead to this good news about your rising income.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The area of your life that will be accented will be other people’s money—commissions, royalties, cash advances, gifts, insurance payouts, bonuses, venture capital, scholarships and university financial aid, mortgages and bank loans, inheritances, and money like that.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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