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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hyperbolic

/ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɔl.ɪk/ adjective

Forms hyperbolical hyperbolick

  1. adjective Of or relating to hyperbole.
  2. adjective Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
  3. adjective (color theory) Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
  4. adjective Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
  5. adjective Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function. “The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one.”
  6. adjective (mathematics, of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
  7. adjective (geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
  8. adjective (topology) Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).

Synonyms

exaggerative inflated

Etymology

From Latin hyperbolic(us), from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολικός (huperbolikós). First attested in the 15th century. By surface analysis, hyperbol(e) + -ic.

First attested in 1676. By surface analysis, hyperbol(a) + -ic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.
  2. adjective Relating to, containing, or of the nature of, hyperbole; exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression. "This hyperbolical epitaph." Fuller.

Etymology [L. hyperbolicus, Gr. hyperbolique.]

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