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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despair

UK /dɪˈspɛə(ɹ)/ · US /dɪˈspɛɚ/ verb, noun

Forms despairs despairing despaired

  1. verb (transitive, obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to despair.
  3. verb (intransitive) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation. [(often) with of]
  4. noun Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency. “He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive.”
  5. noun That which causes despair.
  6. noun That which is despaired of.

Synonyms

desperation despondency hopelessness despond unhope wanhope

Antonyms

hope respair

Etymology

From Middle English dispeir, from Anglo-Norman despeir and Old French desperer (from Latin dēspērō, dēspērāre), or desesperer, from des- (“dis-”) + esperer (“hope”). See also desperate. Displaced native Old English ormōdnes (“despair”) and Old English ortrīewan (“to despair”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; --often with of. We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8.
  2. verb To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of. [Obs.]
  3. verb To cause to despair. [Obs.] Sir W. Williams.
  4. noun Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

Etymology [OE. despeiren, dispeiren, OF. desperer, fr. L. desperare; de- + sperare to hope; akin to spes hope, and perh. to spatium space, E. space, speed; cf. OF. espeir hope, F. espoir. Cf. Prosper, Desperate.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. despoir, fr. desperer.]

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

Sanskrit

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