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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drowsy

/ˈdɹaʊzi/ adjective

Forms drowsier drowsiest

  1. adjective Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness “I was feeling drowsy and so decided to make a cup of coffee to try to wake myself up.”
  2. adjective Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific. “It was a warm, drowsy summer afternoon.”
  3. adjective Boring.
  4. adjective Dull; stupid.

Synonyms

lethargic dozy adrowse bedroomy dopey dragging one's tail eyelids at half-mast nodding off oscitant out of steam sleepbound sleepish sleepy slombry snoozy slumberful slumberous slumbersome slumbery somniculous drowsing yawning

Etymology

From drowse + -y, despite the fact that drowsy (1520) is recorded before drowse (1570). Compare Old English drūsian (“to droop, drowse, become languid”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak.
  2. adjective Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.

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

Sanskrit

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