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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

incidental

[ɪnsɪˈdɛ.ɾ̃əl] adjective, noun

Forms incidentals

  1. adjective Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related. “That character, though colorful, is incidental to the overall plot.”
  2. adjective Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence. “Injuries are incidental to contact sports: they're going to happen.”
  3. adjective Occurring by chance.
  4. adjective (physics, of radiation) Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
  5. noun Minor items, not further defined. Incidental expense. “She's costing us a lot in incidentals.”
  6. noun Something that is incidental.

Synonyms

accidental contingent serendipitous incidental expense minor expense incident nonessential attendant consequent accompanying concomitant ensuant resultant sequent

Antonyms

inevitable necessary impossible intentional basic

Etymology

From incident + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses.
  2. noun An incident; that which is incidental; esp., in the plural, an aggregate of subordinate or incidental items not particularized; as, the expense of tuition and incidentals. Pope.

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

Sanskrit

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

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