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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gaudy

/ˈɡɔːdi/ adjective, noun

Forms gaudier gaudiest gaudies

  1. adjective Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner. “They were all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.”
  2. adjective (obsolete) Fun; merry; festive.
  3. noun (archaic) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
  4. noun (Oxford University) A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.

Synonyms

tawdry flashy garish kitschy bedizened blatant blingish brash campy catchpenny chichi chintzy corny crass crude flaunting florid flossy froufrou gauche brassy cheap flash gimcrack loud meretricious tacky tatty trashy jazzy

Antonyms

unadorned

Etymology

From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia. equivalent to gaud (“ornament, trinket”) + -y.
Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþō, *walþijō, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld.
A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born.

Borrowed from Latin gaudium (“joy”). Doublet of joy and jo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.
  2. adjective Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson.
  3. noun One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited. [Obs.] Gower.
  4. noun A feast or festival; --called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.

Etymology [See Gaud, n.]

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