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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virtually

UK /ˈvɜːt͡ʃʊəli/ · US /ˈvɚ.t͡ʃə.wə.li/ adverb

  1. adverb Almost but not quite. “With our Medicare supplemental insurance plan, there are virtually no claim forms to fill out. (Advertisement)”
  2. adverb In essence or functionally, but not in fact, formally, or technically. “virtually a member of the family”
  3. adverb (algebra) Of a subgroup of finite index.
  4. adverb (topology) Of a covering space of finite degree.
  5. adverb By computer or in cyberspace.

Synonyms

as good as more or less nearly practically effectively cyberly digitally about almost most near nigh well-nigh

Antonyms

actually

Etymology

From Middle English vertually; equivalent to virtual + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “virtually” (best matches first).