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Adjective: accentual  ak'sen-choo-ul
  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"

See also: accent

Antonym: quantitative, syllabic

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