atonic

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/eɪˈtɒnɪk/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(ə ton′ik, ā ton′-)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
a•ton•ic  (ə ton′ik, ā ton′-),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. Phonetics
    • Phoneticsunaccented.
    • Phonetics[Obs.]voiceless.
  2. Pathologycharacterized by atony.

n. 
  1. Phonetics[Gram.]an unaccented word, syllable, or sound.
  • 1720–30; a-6 + tonic; in pathology sense, aton(y) + -ic

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
atonic / eɪˈtɒnɪk æ-/
  1. (of a syllable, word, etc) carrying no stress; unaccented
  2. lacking body or muscle tone
  1. an unaccented or unstressed syllable, word, etc, such as for in food for thought
Etymology: 18th Century: from Latin atonicus, from Greek atonos lacking tone; see atony
'atonic' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
atonicity

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