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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faithful

/ˈfeɪθ.fl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms faithfuls faithfull

  1. adjective Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause. “My dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else.”
  2. adjective Having faith.
  3. adjective Reliable; worthy of trust. “My servant is very faithful.”
  4. adjective Consistent with reality. “I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.”
  5. adjective Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner. “They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.”
  6. adjective (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
  7. adjective (ring theory) Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
  8. noun (plural noun) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause. “The faithful pray five times a day.”
  9. noun Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.

Synonyms

congregation fold close

Antonyms

unfaithful

Etymology

From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.
  2. adjective Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements.

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

Sanskrit

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

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