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What does unaccented mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word unaccented? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of a word, having no diacritical mark; accentless.
  2. Of a vowel or syllable, pronounced with no, or little stress.
  3. Not pronounced with a distinctive accent.
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Accented characters have been replaced by the corresponding string of unaccented letters.
Specialists tend to just assume that this is because word-final unaccented vowels tend to fall away.
A pair of buttons controls whether accented and unaccented letters must match when searching.
Aphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in 'baccy and 'later.
All of these unaccented syllables are reckoned together as one thesis, as against the accented syllable or arsis.
The system does not distinguish between accented and unaccented letters in the search terms.

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