tonic accent

Questions about tonic accent

What is another word for tonic accent?

It depends which tonic accent you mean. In the sense “emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness”, the synonyms are pitch accent. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of tonic accent?

WordNet records no antonym for tonic accent. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for tonic accent come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of tonic accent

• Full entry for tonic accentAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for tonic accentWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.