0 not feeling worried; feeling relaxed and not experiencing stress:
She said that she was feeling completely unstressed about the wedding.
1 (of a word or syllable) not pronounced with stress (= emphasis) :
Stressed and unstressed syllables also differ in their acoustic characteristics.
In the reduplicative base the second mora is supplied either by a consonant, or by an unstressed vowel.
My childhood strategy would have been in trouble if my school dictionary had not given a 'correct' spelling representation to the weak unstressed vowels.
At the same time, stressed syllables are more 'powerful' than unstressed ones.
The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables.
The pre-head is composed of all the unstressed syllables in a tone-unit preceding the first stressed syllable.
To make our investigation more comprehensive, we examine cells with a variety of unstressed shapes including oblate and prolate spheroids.
When reductions were made, they were almost always made on targets with more than two syllables, and involved the elimination of an unstressed syllable.
