Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.

A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.

word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable

A word stressed on the last syllable.

Oxytone (, from Greek oxytonos “having an acute accent”) is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the last syllable, e.g. the English words correct and reward. Related terms are paroxytone (stress on the penultimate syllable) and proparoxytone (accented on the antepenultimate syllable). French is notable for having nearly all of its words like this.