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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impoverished

UK /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/ · US /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ adjective

Also a form of impoverish

  1. adjective Reduced to poverty.
  2. adjective Lacking in richness, diversity or health. “The impoverished soil here can not support any crop.”
  3. adjective Having lost a component, ingredient, faculty or feature; rendered poor in some attribute; depleted. “English has an impoverished inflectional system.”
  4. adjective (paleontology, zoology) Represented by few species. “The fossil record from this era is impoverished.”

Synonyms

poor defective almsless arm badly off bankrupt beggared beggarly boracic broke broken broker than the Ten Commandments depauperate destitute dirt poor disadvantaged down and out down at heel down on one's luck down on one's uppers indigent necessitous needy poverty-stricken wiped out

Antonyms

affluent comfortably off flush loaded pecunious rich wealthy well-fixed well-heeled well off well-off well-to-do

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “impoverished”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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