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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exceptional

/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/ adjective, noun

Forms exceptionals

  1. adjective Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare. “What an exceptional meal!”
  2. adjective (education, of a student) Requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability. “The origins of the conditions and disorders that exceptional learners have are not always well understood.”
  3. adjective Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity. “The quality of the beer was exceptional.”
  4. adjective (geometry) Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence. “an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor”
  5. noun An exception, or something having an exceptional value

Synonyms

especial egregious exceeding olympian prodigious surpassing particular special

Antonyms

ordinary categorical common general usual mediocre commonplace

Etymology

Cf. F. exceptionnel.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell.

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

Sanskrit

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