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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agnostic

UK /aɡˈnɒstɪk/ · US /æɡˈnɑstɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms agnostics

  1. adjective Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity. “She left the church when she had become agnostic.”
  2. adjective (informal, usually with a prepositional phrase) Having no firmly held opinions on something. “I'm agnostic on whether ethanol is a green fuel.”
  3. adjective Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents. “His agnostic viewpoint is summarized in his book.”
  4. adjective (computing, of a software component etc.) Unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components or input with which it interacts. “The socket communications layer is agnostic with regard to its underlying transport mechanism—it is “transport-agnostic”.”
  5. noun A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.

Synonyms

doubter agnostical

Antonyms

gnostic

Etymology

Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870. Either from Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos, “ignorant, not knowing”), or from a- + Gnostic, deriving (either way) from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
  2. noun One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

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