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

essentially

/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ adverb

  1. adverb In essence: by nature. “The beaver is a social creature, not just occasionally but essentially.”
  2. adverb (by extension) In essence: in most ways that matter; in all ways that matter. “A: So you're saying, in other words, that he's greedy? B: Essentially, yes, that's what I'm saying.”

Synonyms

inherently intrinsically innately naturally quintessentially in and of itself per se actually at bottom at heart basically fundamentally characteristically centrally substantially au fond by definition deep down in effect in essence

Antonyms

circumstantially happenstantially incidentally coincidentally by chance accidentally adventitiously by accident fortuitously on accident

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.

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

Sanskrit

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

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