Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🗣️ No accent 🔈 No stress
accentless

accentless

6.3
Not showing where you are from when you speak or not using small marks on letters
  • adjective
  • /ˈæksəntləs/
translation icon : sin acento
  • He took the boater off, put it on the bar, and said in the flat, accentless accent of the Midwest, "I thought maybe Florida would be way too hot for the summer."
  • accentless voice

Examples

  • They heard their father's message (in perfectly accentless Hungarian!) of reassurance.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • I've always thought that people from Colorado just talked, like, accentless American accent.

  • "Hello," it replied, in the curiously accentless voice only an AI could produce.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Every few minutes, Joshua came to my door to ask in his accentless voice if I needed anything, slightly embarrassed to find he was not interrupting me.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • He straightened formally and in an accentless voice proclaimed: "Heinrich Von Rheinstadt, at your service."

    Fiction book (1999)

  • You loudly upbraid the Kosovar in accentless, musical English, a strange dialect you developed years ago solely to communicate poetically with non-native speakers.

    Blog text (11)

  • She spoke in an accentless voice, making it hard to tell where she was from.

  • The actor delivered his lines in an accentless manner, ensuring clarity for all audiences.

  • He sang the song in accentless English, allowing everyone to understand the beautiful lyrics.

Antonyms

accented
3.9

Speech that shows the speaker is from another country

How Accented

accented
3.9
accentless
6.3

Surface Forms

accentless positive

Morphology

accentless = accent (transparent) = accent + less

The adjective is formed by adding the productive suffix '-less' to 'accent', meaning 'without accent' in both speech and orthography.

Etymology

Accentless comes from accent, meaning 'a way of speaking' or 'an accent mark on a letter', and -less, meaning 'without'. So accentless describes speech that is 'without a noticeable accent' or text 'without accent marks'.