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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fantastic

[fanˈtʰas.tɪk(ʰ)] adjective, noun

Forms fantastics fantastick phantastic phantastick phantastique

  1. adjective Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier). “"I had a simply fantastic vacation, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!"”
  2. adjective Existing in or constructed from fantasy; of or relating to fantasy; fanciful. “He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.”
  3. adjective (of people, now rare) Given to fanciful ideas, impulsive; irrational.
  4. adjective (archaic) Not believable; implausible; seemingly only possible in fantasy.
  5. adjective (archaic) Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; grotesque.
  6. noun (archaic) A fanciful or whimsical person.

Synonyms

brilliant fabulous splendid super wonderful ace admirable amazing awe-inspiring awesome badass broyal bang on bang-up studly based beatific beneship bitching blissful antic fantastical grotesque grand howling marvelous marvellous rattling terrific tremendous

Antonyms

reasonable realistic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fantastique, borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, borrowed from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phăntăstĭkós, “imaginary, fantastic; fictional”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Equivalent to fantasy + -tic. Doublet of fantastique.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
  2. adjective Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak.
  3. noun A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton.

Etymology [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. Fancy.]

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