unstressedadjective
uk/ʌnˈstrest//ʌnˈstrest/unstressed adjective (NOT WORRIED)
not feeling worried; feeling relaxed and not experiencing stress:
She said that she was feeling completely unstressed about the wedding.
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Calm and relaxed
- (as) cool as a cucumber idiom
- at (your) leisure idiom
- be at peace with the world idiom
- carefree
- careless
- comfort
- comfortably
- easy come, easy go idiom
- easy-going
- equilibrium
- free-flowing
- genteel
- harmonious
- lamb
- peaceful
- poised
- quiescent
- relaxed
- rested
- sangfroid
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unstressed adjective (PRONUNCIATION)
specialized phonetics, literature (of a word or syllable) not pronounced with stress (= emphasis) :
Most words that are made up of more than one syllable have at least one stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable.
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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
- alveolar
- approximant
- articulatory
- aspiration
- assimilation
- bilabial
- clear l
- clipped
- consonant
- nasalization
- onomatopoeia
- palatal
- palato-alveolar
- pharyngeal
- phoneme
- pronounce
- silent letter
- voiced
- vowel
- weak form
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