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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fireball

UK /ˈfaɪəbɔːl/ · US /ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔl/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms fireballs fireballing fireballed

  1. noun A ball of fire, especially one associated with an explosion, or (fiction, mythology) thrown as a weapon.
  2. noun (informal) A feisty, strong-willed person.
  3. noun (baseball) Synonym of fastball (“a high-speed pitch of a baseball”).
  4. noun (astronautics) A bright glow caused by a spacecraft re-entering an atmosphere.
  5. noun (astronomy) A meteor bright enough to cast shadows; a bolide.
  6. noun (sailing) A class of sailing dinghy with a single trapeze and a symmetrical spinnaker, sailed by a crew of two.
  7. noun (weaponry, historical) A bag or ball filled with combustible material which is thrown as a weapon or to set something alight.
  8. noun (heraldry) A charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell with flames emitted from the top, or sometimes from the top, bottom, and on either side.
  9. adjective (slang) Excellent, terrific.
  10. verb (transitive, fiction, chiefly fantasy, science fiction) To attack (someone or something) with balls of fire.
  11. verb To explode in a ball of fire or flame. “The car swerved off a road, hit a wall, and fireballed as the petrol tank exploded.”
  12. verb (figurative) To emerge suddenly; to explode.
  13. verb (baseball) To pitch a baseball very fast.

Synonyms

fastball bolis ace admirable amazing awe-inspiring awesome badass broyal bang on bang-up studly based beatific beneship bitching blissful bomb brilliant bully bolide powerhouse human dynamo ball of fire

Antonyms

abysmal atrocious awful bad chronic coarse corny crap crapalicious crappy crummy deityforsaken

Etymology

The noun is derived from fire (noun) + ball (noun). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “fireball”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details