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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

effective

/ɪˈfɛktɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms effectives eff.

  1. adjective Having the power to produce a required effect or effects. “The pill is an effective method of birth control.”
  2. adjective Producing a decided or decisive effect. “The president delivered an effective speech!”
  3. adjective Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work. “How long does it take to make a bunch of civilians an effective military force?”
  4. adjective Actually in effect. “effective immediately”
  5. adjective (geometry, of a cycle or divisor) Having no negative coefficients.
  6. adjective (algebra, of a group action) Such that no group element acts trivially.
  7. adjective (physics, for any effective theory) approximate; Not describing the fundamental dynamic changes in some system as they happen.
  8. noun (military) a soldier fit for duty

Synonyms

efficacious telling effectual efficient good in effect in force

Antonyms

nominal ineffective

Etymology

From French effectif, from Latin effectīvus (“productive; effective”), from efficiō (“to make; to bring about”), equivalent to effect + -ive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment.
  2. noun That which produces a given effect; a cause. Jer. Taylor.
  3. noun One who is capable of active service.

Etymology [L. effectivus: cf. F. effectif.]

Etymology [F. effectif real, effective, real amount.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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