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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infallible

/ɪnˈfælɪbəl/ noun, adjective

Forms infallibles

  1. noun A person who, or an object or process that, is taken as being infallible.
  2. adjective Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy. “He knows about many things, but even he is not infallible.”
  3. adjective Certain to produce the intended effect; sure. “Try this infallible cure for hiccups.”
  4. adjective Certain to result from a specific cause; inevitable.
  5. noun (Islam) Any of the fourteen central religious figures believed by Twelver Shia Muslims to be infallible, consisting of Muhammad, his daughter Fatima, and the Twelve Imams recognized by Twelvers.

Synonyms

faultless perfect indefective inerrant

Antonyms

fallible defective faultful faulty imperfect error-prone

Etymology

From Medieval Latin īnfallibilis, from Latin in- + fallibilis. Compare French infaillible. By surface analysis, in- + fallible.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden.
  2. adjective Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy.

Etymology [Pref. in- not + fallible: cf. F. infallible.]

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

Sanskrit

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