| a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. |
| Adj. | 1. | accentual - of or pertaining to accent or stress |
| 2. | accentual - (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" Antonyms: quantitative - (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables; "in typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements" syllabic - (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities |
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