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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adult

/ˈæd.ʌlt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms adults adulting adulted

  1. noun An animal that is full-grown.
  2. noun A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
  3. adjective Fully grown. “an adult human, animal, or plant”
  4. adjective Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc. “adult clothes; adult cereal; an adult documentary”
  5. adjective Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc. “adult situations; adult discussions”
  6. adjective (of a beverage) Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults. “an adult drink; an adult root beer float”
  7. adjective (of a cookie, gummy, etc.) Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults. “an adult cookie; adult gummy worms”
  8. adjective Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; pornographic. “an adult movie”
  9. adjective Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults. “adult language; an adult cartoon”
  10. adjective Intended for, or restricted to, those who are not young children. “an adult menu; an adult fare”
  11. verb (intransitive, slang) To behave like an adult. “Adulting is hard!”
  12. verb (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.

Synonyms

grown up grown-up grownup growed-up postpubescent big pornographic fully grown for adults X-rated XXX XXXX blue indecent obscene salacious full-grown grown

Antonyms

child youngling juvenile

Etymology

From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“to grow up”). Compare adolescent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
  2. noun A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

Etymology [L. adultus, p. p. of adolescere, akin to alere to nourish: cf. F. adulte. See Adolescent, Old.]

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

Sanskrit

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