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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impurity

/ɪmˈpjɝɪti/ noun

Forms impurities

  1. noun The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification. “Even animals in the Jewish system cause impurity only when they are dead.”
  2. noun A component or additive that renders something else impure. “The impurities in the iron ore made extraction of the iron very difficult.”
  3. noun A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity. “With his cheating, lying and stealing, he epitomised the impurity of humanity.”

Synonyms

impureness adulterant contamination taint adulterator contaminant contaminator pollutant pollution sophisticant depravity perversion wickedness baseness corruption defilement degeneracy degradation depravation depravedness dross

Antonyms

purity

Etymology

From impure + -ity. From Middle French impurité, from Latin impuritas.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
  2. noun That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.

Etymology [L. impuritas: cf. F. impureté.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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