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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bisexual

UK /baɪˈsɛk.ʃʊ.əl/ · US /baɪˈsɛk.ʃ(əw).əl/ adjective, noun

Forms bisexuals bi-sexual

  1. adjective (of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)
  2. adjective (botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
  3. adjective (botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
  4. adjective (botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
  5. adjective (botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
  6. adjective (rare) Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female. “Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.”
  7. adjective Androgynous.
  8. adjective (chiefly biology) Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).
  9. noun A person who is bisexual.
  10. noun (botany, rare) A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.
  11. noun (chiefly biology) An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.

Synonyms

AC/DC ambidextrous bi omnifutuent perfect hermaphrodite ambisextrous curious flexible Kinsey 3 open-minded switch-hitting versatile bisexual person epicene

Antonyms

monosexual heterosexual homosexual

Etymology

From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or to the same sex) must be partly of another sex and thus "hermaphroditic".

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

Etymology [Pref. bi- + sexual.]

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