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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guilty

/ˈɡɪl.ti/ adjective, noun

Forms guiltier guiltiest guilties

  1. adjective Responsible for a dishonest act. “He was guilty of cheating at cards.”
  2. adjective (law) Judged to have committed a crime. “The guilty man was led away.”
  3. adjective Having a sense of guilt. “Do you have a guilty conscience?”
  4. adjective Blameworthy. “I have a guilty secret.”
  5. noun (law) A plea by a defendant who does not contest a charge.
  6. noun (law) A verdict of a judge or jury on a defendant judged to have committed a crime.
  7. noun One who is declared guilty of a crime.

Synonyms

culpable nocent censurable blameless praiseworthy shildy at fault blameworthy reprehensible to blame hangdog shamefaced shamed

Antonyms

innocent not guilty blameless clean clean-handed clean as a hound's tooth clean as a whistle clear dovelike guiltless innocent as the babe unborn innocent as the child unborn

Etymology

From Middle English gilty, gulty, from Old English gyltiġ (“offending, guilty”); equivalent to guilt + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; --used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment.
  2. adjective Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.

Etymology [AS. gyltig liable. See Guilt.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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