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

How large may such a group become and still remain fundamentally simple, without reduplication of accentual or temporal differentiation?

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

Thus we have learned to scan lines by iambuses, or rather by their accentual imitations, and a perfect line would consist of ten syllables, of which the alternate ones bore a rhythmical stress.

From The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising by Clark, William George

Certainly, however, the laws of quantity were forgotten, and an accentual pronunciation came to predominate, before Latin had ceased to be a living language.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry