Accent Synonyms and Antonyms

ăksĕnt
Importance
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. emphasis
  2. stress
  3. accentuation
  4. weight
  5. significance
  6. dipody
  7. dochmiac
  8. tetrapody
  9. yakkety-yak
Antonyms:
  1. unimportance
Stress
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. emphasis
  2. inflection
  3. accentuation
  4. dialect
  5. stress
  6. cadence
  7. modulation
  8. intonation
  9. accent-mark
  10. rhythm
  11. tone
  12. prominence
  13. beat
  14. stroke
  15. pitch
  16. brogue
  17. ictus
  18. meter
  19. intensification
  20. mark
  21. diacritic
  22. oxytone
  23. pulsation
  24. amphibrach
  25. sound
  26. tempo
  27. anacrusis
  28. consequentiality
  29. idiom
  30. fermata
  31. hexameter
  32. spondee
Manner of pronunciation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dialect
  2. speech pattern
  3. inflection
  4. pronunciation
  5. drawl
  6. intonation
  7. articulation
  8. brogue
  9. twang
  10. enunciation
  11. burr
  12. amphimacer
  13. antispast
  14. bacchius
  15. cretic
  16. epitrite
  17. metron
  18. molossus
  19. mora
  20. paeon
  21. segno
  22. tribrach
  23. trimeter
  24. trochee
Particular importance or interest; emphasis:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. emphasis
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. guttural
  2. alexandrine
  3. tonic

Words Related to Accent

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. importance
  2. sounds
  3. important
  4. regional-accent
  5. patois

Accent Sentence Examples

  • Maybe it was the soft accent that held her attention.

  • His cultured accent made even bad news sound pleasant.

  • Most words take the accent on the penult.

  • The accent says otherwise, but I was born in New York.

  • She sometimes thought his accent sounded Russian, sometimes Irish.

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