accentual

American  

[ak-sen-choo-uhl] / ækˈsɛn tʃu əl /

adjective

1. of or relating to accent or stress.

2. Prosody. of or relating to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.

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accentual British  

/ ækˈsɛntʃʊəl /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic

2. prosody of or relating to verse based on the number of stresses in a line rather than on the number of syllables Compare quantitative

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Other Word Forms

• accentuality noun
• accentually adverb
• nonaccentual adjective
• nonaccentually adverb

Etymology

Origin of accentual

1600–10; < Latin accentu ( s ) ( accent ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Eventually, he stirs in some variations of speed and volume, accentual bursts of sound, with deeper tones and crunch.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2024

Otherwise, they dress like the British, their mother tongue is English, with an accentual twang of Indian and they are Christians.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2013

That this would not affect the chansons themselves is true enough; for there are no relics of any alliterative prosody in French, and its accentual scanning is only the naturally "crumbled" quantity of Latin.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

He introduced critical signs—except the obelus; punctuation prosodiacal, and accentual marks were probably already in use.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

Rebus sic stantibus, what's the use of talking about quantitative and accentual verse, as if they were really two kinds of verse?

From The Voice and Spiritual Education by Corson, Hiram