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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gloom

UK /ɡluːm/ · US /ɡlum/ noun, verb

Forms glooms glooming gloomed

  1. noun Darkness, dimness, or obscurity. “the gloom of a forest, or of midnight”
  2. noun A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
  3. noun Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
  4. noun A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
  5. verb (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
  6. verb (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
  7. verb (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
  8. verb (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
  9. verb To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

Synonyms

An atmosphere of gloom descended on the assembled crowd. grieve mourn aggrieve besorrow condole darken engrieve erme grieven bleed lament moan remorse repent regret rue sigh sorrow wayment somberness sombreness gloominess glumness

Etymology

From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōm, from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”), Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
  2. noun A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
  3. verb To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
  4. verb To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.

Etymology [AS. glom twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]

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

Sanskrit

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