accentless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæk.sɛnt.ləs/
Adjective
[edit]accentless (comparative more accentless, superlative most accentless)
- (of a person) Speaking without an accent.
- (of speech) Spoken without an accent.
- 2009, Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal, Picador (2015), page 126:
- “You were looking up my skirt,” she said flatly, in accentless English.
- (of a word's sound or of a language) Not having any stress (accent).
- (of a written word) Having no accent marks.
- Synonym: unaccented
- (of a written word) Having no diacritical marks of any kind.
- Synonyms: diacriticless, undiacritized, unaccented
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]unaccented — see unaccented