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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inflated

/ɪnˈfleɪtɪd/ adjective

Also a form of inflate

  1. adjective Filled with air or fluid “The inflated balloons danced in the breeze.”
  2. adjective Expanded; in a state of inflation, of abnormally increased size, amount, etc. “His inflated belly looked uncomfortable.”
  3. adjective (economics): In a state of higher cost. “His inflated prices made the vendor unpopular.”
  4. adjective (figuratively) Pompous; arrogant (of a person or ego)
  5. adjective (figuratively) Containing excessive, meaningless words, particularly for show “The inflated speech did not impress the audience.”
  6. adjective Higher that the true figure

Synonyms

bloated bulging expanded filled swelled swollen tumid turgid bombastic pompous hyperbolic high-flown high-sounding

Antonyms

deflated

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.
  2. adjective Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style.

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

Sanskrit

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

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