accentual

2 definitions found

accentual - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Accentual \Ac*cen"tu*al\, a.
     Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by
     accent.
     [1913 Webster]

accentual - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  accentual
      adj 1: of or pertaining to accent or stress
      2: (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" [ant:
         quantitative, syllabic]