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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inferior

UK /ɪnˈfɪə.ɹi.ə/ · US /ɪnˈfɪɹ.i.ɚ/ adjective, noun

Forms inferiors inferiour

  1. adjective (with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality. “Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.”
  2. adjective Of low rank, standard or quality. “an inferior officer”
  3. adjective (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
  4. adjective (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
  5. adjective (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
  6. adjective (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
  7. adjective (botany) Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
  8. adjective (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
  9. noun A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another. “As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want.”
  10. noun (printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.

Synonyms

awful horrible low-grade low-rent abysmal atrocious bad chronic coarse corny crap crapalicious crappy crummy deityforsaken dire disagreeable dismal dogshit dreadful subscript deficient substandard

Antonyms

crowning ferior foremost greater higher major paramount preeminent superior supreme utmost vaulting

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.
  2. adjective Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.
  3. noun A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.

Etymology [L., compar. of inferus that is below, underneath, the lower; akin to E. under: cf. F. inférieur. See Under.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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