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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heavily

/ˈhɛvɪli/ adverb

Forms heauily

  1. adverb With a great weight. “heavily burdened”
  2. adverb To a considerable degree, to a great extent. “He relied heavily on the data collected by the others.”
  3. adverb In a manner designed for heavy duty. “heavily armed soldiers; heavily armoured tanks; heavily reinforced walls”
  4. adverb So as to be thick or heavy. “heavily built young men; his heavily muscled arms”
  5. adverb In a laboured manner. “he breathed heavily”

Synonyms

to a great extent heavy intemperately hard

Antonyms

lightly

Etymology

From Middle English hevely, hevyliche, from Old English hefiġlīċe (“heavily; grievously”), equivalent to heavy + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
  2. adverb As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.

Etymology [From 2d Heavy.]

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

Sanskrit

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