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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conservative

UK /kənˈsɜːvətɪv/ · US /kənˈsɝvətɪv/ noun, adjective

Forms conservatives

  1. noun A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
  2. noun (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
  3. noun (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
  4. adjective Cautious, moderate. “The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish.”
  5. adjective Tending to resist change or innovation. “The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.”
  6. adjective Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side. “At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.”
  7. adjective (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
  8. adjective (UK, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
  9. adjective (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
  10. adjective Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
  11. adjective (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
  12. noun (UK, politics) A member of the Conservative party.
  13. noun (Canada, politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors
  14. noun (Judaism) pertaining to Conservative Judaism

Synonyms

Tory Blue conservativist cautious button-down buttoned-down bourgeois materialistic

Antonyms

liberal

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
  2. adjective Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
  3. noun One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
  4. noun One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; --opposed to revolutionary or radical.

Etymology [Cf. F. conservatif.]

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