Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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unfledged

UK /ˈʌnflɛd͡ʒd/ · US /ˌʌnˈflɛd͡ʒd/ adjective

  1. adjective Not having feathers.
  2. adjective Of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly.
  3. adjective Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to youth.
  4. adjective Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete, unfinished.

Synonyms

apteric featherless unfeathered unfletched callow green experienceless inexperienced unexperienced fresh new punk pup raw strange unpracticed unseasoned unseen unversed immature fledgeless unvaned fledgling

Antonyms

fledged practiced seasoned versed hard-bitten qualified veteran accomplished adept old hardened knowing the ropes

Etymology

From un- (suffix meaning ‘not’) + fledged (“furnished with feathers or wings”, adjective).

From unfledge (“to remove feathers from (a bird)”) + -ed (suffix forming past tense forms of verbs).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature. Dryden.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “unfledged”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details