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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antediluvian

UK /ˌæn.tɪ.dɪˈluː.vɪ.ən/ · US /ˌæn.ti.dəˈlu.vi.ən/ adjective, noun

Forms antediluvians antedeluvian

  1. adjective (biblical) Belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, or (by extension) to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies.
  2. adjective (by extension) Of animals and plants: long extinct; prehistoric.
  3. adjective Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.
  4. adjective Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated. “Those ideas are antediluvian.”
  5. noun (biblical) A person who lived in the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, especially one of the biblical patriarchs.
  6. noun A very old person.
  7. noun A person with extremely old-fashioned attitudes, ideas, etc., especially to a laughable extent; a fogey or old fogey.

Synonyms

antediluvial prediluvian preflood prehistoric ancient aged age-old auld cobwebbed cobwebby decrepit eld eldern gamol gray hoary moss-grown old old as the hills old as the Pyramids antediluvian patriarch antiquated archaic

Antonyms

postdiluvial postdiluvian baby-faced juvenile hebetic young youngling youngly youngsome youngthly youthful youthly

Etymology

From ante- (prefix meaning ‘prior to in time’) + Latin dīluvium (“a flood”) + -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns), referring the story of Noah’s Ark, through which God rescues Noah, his family, and examples of all the world’s animals from the great flood, which is related in Genesis 6–9 of the Bible. Dīluvium is derived from dīluō (“to wash away”) (from dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, asunder, in two’) + lavō (“to wash”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”))) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The English word is analyzable as ante- + diluvian.
Adjective sense 2 (“long extinct”) is from the fact that such animals and plants were originally believed to have perished in the biblical flood referred to above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.
  2. adjective One who lived before the Deluge.

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