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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disconsolate

UK /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/ · US /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/ adjective, noun

  1. adjective Cheerless, dreary. “I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.”
  2. adjective Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable. “For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.”
  3. noun (obsolete) Disconsolateness.

Synonyms

bleak dreary downcast cheerless comfortless dark morose depressing desolate dire dismal doleful dolesome drear drearisome dreich forlorn gayless gray gloomsome inconsolable unconsolable blue dingy gloomy grim sorry drab

Antonyms

consolable

Etymology

From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Disconsolateness. [Obs.] Barrow.
  2. adjective Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.
  3. adjective Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. Ray.

Etymology [LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- + consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See Console, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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