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
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as
effective as a rightly timed pause.