accented

1. 1.

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

   “a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word”

   Synonymstonic
2. 2.

   bearing a stress or accent

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

   Synonymsstressed

   Similaremphaticmasculine

Questions about accented

What does accented mean?

accented means "(used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accented?

accented has 3 syllables: ac-cen-ted. The stress falls on "ac". In IPA it is /ˈæksɛntɪd/.

What is another word for accented?

Close synonyms include tonic, stressed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accented a common word?

accented is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.