Associations to the word «Accentual»

Wiktionary

ACCENTUAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.
ACCENTUAL, adjective. Designating verse rhythms based on stress accents.

Dictionary definition

ACCENTUAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to accent or stress.
ACCENTUAL, adjective. (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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats