accentual

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to accent or stress
2. 2.

   (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity

   “accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line”

   “accentual rhythm”

   Antonymsquantitativesyllabic

Questions about accentual

What does accentual mean?

accentual means "of or pertaining to accent or stress". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accentual?

accentual has 4 syllables: ac-cen-tu-al. The stress falls on "cen".

What is the opposite of accentual?

The recorded antonyms are quantitative, syllabic.

Is accentual a common word?

accentual 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.