Atonic: Definition and part of speech

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Atonic

  1. n. A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.
  2. a. Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.
  3. a. Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.
  4. a. Destitute of tone vocality; surd.
  5. n. A word that has no accent.
  6. n. An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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