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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incomprehensible

UK /ɪnˌkɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/ · US /ɪnˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/ adjective, noun

Forms incomprehensibles

  1. adjective Impossible or very difficult to understand.
  2. adjective (theology or literary) Which cannot be contained; boundless, infinite.
  3. noun Anything that is beyond understanding.

Synonyms

fathomless unfathomable unintelligible abstruse Chinese dense enigmatic bottomless Greek inapprehensible incognizable ineffable inenubilable inexplicable impenetrable insensible inscrutable insoluble insolvable mysterious uncomprehensible

Antonyms

comprehensible understandable

Etymology

From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehēnsibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not capable of being contained within limits.
  2. adjective Not capable of being comprehended or understood; beyond the reach of the human intellect; inconceivable.

Etymology [L. incomprehensibilis: cf. F. incompréhensible. See In- not, and Comprehensible.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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