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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derelict

UK /ˈdɛr.ə.lɪkt/ · US /ˈdɛɹəˌlɪk(t)/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms derelicts derelicting derelicted

  1. adjective Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
  2. adjective (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space. “There was a derelict ship on the island.”
  3. adjective (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
  4. adjective (figurative) Adrift, lost.
  5. adjective (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
  6. noun (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
  7. noun (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
  8. noun (countable, dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast, a waif.
  9. noun (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
  10. noun (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.
  11. verb (transitive) To abandon or forsake (someone or something).
  12. verb (intransitive) To neglect a duty.

Synonyms

dropped forlorn abandoned desert deserted desolate discarded forsaken high and dry left behind orphaned crumbling rundown shabby tacky scroungy mean beat beat up beaten up abandoned ship creaky decrepit flea-bitten run-down woebegone delinquent neglectful remiss bedraggled

Etymology

The adjective and verb are a learned borrowing from Latin dērelictus (“(completely) abandoned, deserted, forsaken; discarded”), the perfect passive participle of dērelinquō (“to abandon, desert, forsake; to discard”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘away from; completely, thoroughly’) + relinquō (“to abandon, desert, forsake, leave (behind); to depart (from); to give up, relinquish”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave”). Doublet of relict, relic, and relinquish.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.
  2. adjective Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.

Etymology [L. derelictus, p. p. of derelinquere to forsake wholly, to abandon; de- + relinquere to leave. See Relinquish.]

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