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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choleric

UK /ˈkɒləɹɪk/ · US /ˈkɑləɹɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms cholerics

  1. adjective Of or relating to choler.
  2. adjective Of a person: having an excess of choler, and thus having a tendency to become angry easily; also, of a person's complexion or temperament: dominated by choler.
  3. adjective (astrology, historical) Of a planet or zodiac sign, season, etc.: affecting people having an excess of choler, causing anger or irritability.
  4. adjective Of a body organ: affected by or containing choler, especially when abnormal or excessive.
  5. adjective Of a disease or symptom: caused by choler, especially when abnormal or excessive.
  6. adjective Of food: causing an excess of choler in the body.
  7. adjective Of a person: having a tendency to become angry easily; bad-tempered, irritable; also, feeling or showing anger; angry, enraged.
  8. adjective Of an act, feeling, words, etc.: arising from or showing anger.
  9. noun (medicine, historical) A person having an excess of choler, and thus having a tendency to become angry easily; preceded by the: such people collectively.
  10. noun (by extension) A person having a tendency to become angry easily; preceded by the: such people collectively.
  11. noun Senses relating to cholera.
  12. noun (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of choleraic (“a person suffering from cholera”).

Synonyms

hot-tempered ill-tempered irascible temperamental atrabilious bad-tempered bilious bitchy brainish cantankerous carnaptious crabbit crabby cranky crotchety dyspeptic edgy fantoddish fiery fractious hotheaded quick-tempered short-tempered

Antonyms

noncholeric uncholeric

Etymology

From Middle English colerik (“(adjective) of or relating to, or dominated by, choler; of diseases: caused by excessive or toxic choler; of persons or their temperament: dominated by choler, irascible, quick to anger, choleric; of weather or zodiac signs: favourable to choler; (noun) person dominated by choler, person who is irascible or quick to anger; etc.”), from Anglo-Norman coleric, colerik, colerique, Middle French colerique, and Old French colerique (“(adjective) of or relating to choler; of persons or their temperament: dominated by choler, irascible, quick to anger; angry, enraged; (noun) person dominated by choler; person who is irascible”) (modern French cholérique), and from their etymon Late Latin cholericus (“quick to anger”), Latin cholericus (“person having cholera”), from Ancient Greek χολερικός (kholerikós, “of or relating to cholera”), from χολέρᾰ (kholéră, “cholera”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’). Χολέρᾰ (Kholéră) is possibly from Pre-Greek, or from χολή (kholḗ, “bile; gall”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green; yellow”). By surface analysis, choler + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or relating to’). Piecewise doublet of choleraic.
Adjective sense 2.1 (“of or relating to cholera; affected by cholera”) and noun sense 2.1 (“person suffering from cholera”) are probably influenced by French cholérique (“(adjective) of or relating to cholera; affected by cholera; (noun) person with cholera”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.
  2. adjective Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

Etymology [L. cholericus, Gr. cholérique.]

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