Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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annoy

/əˈnoɪ̯/ verb, noun

Forms annoys annoying annoyed

verb (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds. “Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.”
verb (transitive, archaic) To molest; to harm; to injure. “to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade”
noun A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
noun That which causes such a feeling.

Synonyms

bother irritate damage wound abuse bewound damnify dere do damage to do for do ill do violence to forwork grieve harm harrow hurt injure maul mayhem rag get to get at rile nark nettle gravel vex chafe devil

Antonyms

please comfort soothe

Etymology

From Middle English anoyen, from Old French anoier (“to bother, disturb”), from Late Latin inodiāre (“to make loathsome”), derived from Latin odium (“loathing, hatred”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan, gremman.

From Middle English anoy, from Old French enui. Doublet of ennui.

Webster’s 1913

verb To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.
noun A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.

Etymology [OE. anoien, anuien, OF. anoier, anuier, F. ennuyer, fr. OF. anoi, anui, enui, annoyance, vexation, F. ennui. See Annoy, n.]

Etymology [OE. anoi, anui, OF. anoi, anui, enui, fr. L. in odio hatred (esse alicui in odio, Cic.). See Ennui, Odium, Noisome, Noy.]

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

Sanskrit

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

अधिबाध् adhi-bādh -bādhate, -dhitum, to vex, annoy.
एठ् eṭh eṭhate, to annoy, resist or oppose.
रेखाय rekhāya rekhāyate, etc., to praise, flatter; to vex, distress, annoy.
विरुष् vi-ruṣ -roṣati, etc., -roṣitum or -roṣṭum, to displease, annoy, irritate.
मिछ् mich micchati, mimiccha, micchitum, to annoy, hurt, pain; to obstruct, hinder.
विधृष् vi-dhṛṣ -dharṣayati, -yitum, to violate, ravish; to spoil, injure; to annoy, trouble.
संरुष् saṃ-ruṣ -roṣati, etc., to annoy, displease, make angry: Caus. -roṣayati, etc., to enrage, irritate.
अतिशी ati-śī -śete, -śayitum, to precede in lying down; to surpass, excel, exceed; to act as an incubus, annoy.

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