unstressable

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ stressable.

Adjective

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unstressable (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Not capable of being stressed, or emphasized in speech.
    The schwa vowel is unstressable in English, though it may be stressed in Albanian.

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