Crossword-Solution: UNSTRESSED
We have 3 clues for the answer “UNSTRESSED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kind of syllable. | 1 answer |
| Not emphasized, as a syllable | 1 answer |
| not bearing a stress or accent | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GAEAT
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with UNSTRESSED (5)
The number of unstressed syllables appears to a modern eye or ear irregular and actually is very unequal, but they are really combined with the stressed ones into 'feet' in accordance with certain definite principles.
There is, unquestionably, a natural "iambic" roll in English prose, due to the predominant alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in our native tongue, but when Dickens--to cite what John Wesley would call "an eminent sinner" in this respect--inserts in his emotional prose line after line of five-stress "iambic" verse, we feel instinctively that the presence of the blank verse impairs the true harmony of the prose.
But he must not imagine that any laboratory system of tapping syncopated time, or any painstaking marking of macrons (-) breves (u) and caesuras (||) will give him full initiation into the mysteries of prose cadences which have been built, not merely out of stressed and unstressed syllables, but out of the passionate intellectual life of many generations of men.
Instead of looking for "long" and "short" syllables, we had merely to look for "stressed" and "unstressed" syllables.
Only we must be careful that by "iambus," in English poetry, we _meant_ an unstressed syllable, rather than a short syllable followed by a long one.
Quotes with UNSTRESSED (2)
I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–2013).