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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humanitarian

UK /hjʊˌmæ.nɪˈtɛː.ɹɪ.ən/ · US /hjuˌmæ.nəˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/ adjective, noun

Forms humanitarians

  1. adjective Relating to people's welfare.
  2. adjective Being compassionate or humane.
  3. adjective (Christianity, rare) Of or pertaining to the belief that Jesus Christ is fully human and not divine.
  4. adjective (philosophy, historical) Synonym of humanist (“relating to humanism”).
  5. noun A person concerned with people's welfare; a do-gooder or philanthropist.
  6. noun (Christianity, rare) One who believes that Jesus Christ is fully human and not divine.
  7. noun (philosophy, historical) Synonym of humanist (“a person who believes in the philosophy of humanism”).

Synonyms

humanist Good Samaritan altruist angel benefactor do-gooder gentleman mensch noble nobleman paragon philanthropist saint improver human-centered human-centred humanistic

Antonyms

jerk schmuck villain

Etymology

From humanity + -arian (suffix indicating an advocate of or believer in something), possibly modelled after Unitarian (“Christian who does not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity; pertaining to Unitarianism”) (see noun sense 2 and verb sense 2).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
  2. adjective Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.
  3. noun One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
  4. noun One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.

Etymology [From Humanity.]

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