stressless

English

Etymology

From stress +‎ -less.

Adjective

stressless (comparative more stressless, superlative most stressless)

  1. Lacking stress.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:
      She knew some Dutch and spoke a high-pitched stressless English.
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