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Meaning of word accentual from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

accentual   adjective

Meaning : Of or pertaining to accent or stress.

Meaning : (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity.

Example : Accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line.
Accentual rhythm.

(of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables.

In typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements.
quantitative

(of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities.

syllabic

Accentual meaning in Telugu.