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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cruel

/ˈkɹuːəl/ adjective, adverb, verb

Forms crueler crueller cruelest cruellest cruels crueling cruelling crueled cruelled cruell

  1. adjective Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless. “The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.”
  2. adjective Harsh; severe. “We're certainly having quite a cruel winter this year.”
  3. adjective (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
  4. adverb (nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.
  5. verb (chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
  6. verb (Australia, ambitransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

Synonyms

inhuman sadistic spiteful brutal callous strict cold insensate hardhanded cold-eyed dour thick-skinned flint-hearted forbidding frosty grim hard hard-boiled hardened hardhearted barbarous fell roughshod savage vicious

Antonyms

merciful kindly

Etymology

From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis (“hard, severe, cruel”), akin to crūdus (“raw, crude”); see crude.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Crewel.
  2. adjective Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
  3. adjective Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.

Etymology [F. cruel, fr. L. crudelis, fr. crudus. See Crude.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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