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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homely

UK /ˈhəʊmli/ · US /ˈhoʊmli/ adjective

Forms homelier homeliest hamely

  1. adjective Characteristic of, belonging to, or befitting a home; domestic, cosy.
  2. adjective (Canada, US) Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive.
  3. adjective (UK dialectal) On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate.
  4. adjective (UK dialectal, of animals) Domestic; tame.
  5. adjective (UK dialectal) Personal; private.
  6. adjective (UK dialectal) Friendly; kind; gracious; cordial.
  7. adjective (India) Conservative and family-oriented. “I am seeking a beautiful homely girl for marriage.”
  8. adjective Simple; plain; familiar; unelaborate; unadorned. “a homely garment”

Synonyms

plain homelike homey homy

Antonyms

comely

Etymology

From Middle English homly, hoomly, hamely (“domestic, familiar, plain, unattractive”), from Old English *hāmlīċ (“of the home, domestic”), from Proto-West Germanic *haimalīk (“of or characteristic of home”), equivalent to home + -ly. Cognate with Scots hamely (“familiar, personal, private”), West Frisian heimelik, Dutch heimelijk (“secret, secretive, clandestine”), German heimlich (“secret, secretive, clandestine, undercover”), Danish hemmelig (“secret”), Swedish hemlig (“secret, concealed, privy, covert”), Faroese heimligur (“homelike, homey”), Icelandic heimlegur (“homely; worldly”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. [Archaic]
  2. adjective Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.
  3. adverb Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [R.] Spenser.

Etymology [From Home, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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