understressed

stress

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Definitions of understressed word

noun understressed importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth. 1
noun understressed Phonetics. emphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a syllable or a word as a result of special effort in utterance. 1
noun understressed Prosody. accent or emphasis on syllables in a metrical pattern; beat. 1
noun understressed emphasis in melody, rhythm, etc.; beat. 1
noun understressed the physical pressure, pull, or other force exerted on one thing by another; strain. 1
noun understressed Mechanics. the action on a body of any system of balanced forces whereby strain or deformation results. the amount of stress, usually measured in pounds per square inch or in pascals. a load, force, or system of forces producing a strain. the internal resistance or reaction of an elastic body to the external forces applied to it. the ratio of force to area. See also strain1 (def 23), shear (def 19), torsion (def 3). 1

before 1275

One of the 13% oldest English words

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English stresse, aphetic variant of distresse distress; (v.) derivative of the noun

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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