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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

blooming

/ˈbluː.mɪŋ/ adjective, adverb, noun

Also a form of bloom

Forms bloomings

  1. adjective Opening in blossoms; flowering.
  2. adjective Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
  3. adjective (UK, Australia, Ireland) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
  4. adverb (UK, Australia, often followed by well) A euphemism for the intensifier bloody. “My train's late again. Blooming typical.”
  5. noun The act by which something blooms.
  6. noun (metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  7. noun (photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

Synonyms

blossoming flowering in bloom in blossom in flower blossom flourish thriving bally blasted blinking bloomin' bloom bloody crashing flaming fucking

Etymology

By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
  2. adjective Opening in blossoms; flowering.
  3. adjective Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

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

Sanskrit

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

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