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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insensate

/ɪnˈsɛn.sət/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms insensates insensating insensated

  1. adjective Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate.
  2. adjective Senseless; foolish; irrational; thoughtless.
  3. adjective Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive.
  4. adjective (medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli; unfeeling.
  5. noun One who is insensate.
  6. verb (rare) To render insensate; to deprive of sensation or consciousness.

Synonyms

insensible nonsentient unaware insensitive mindless unreasonable unwise callous hardhearted severe brutal cold hardhanded cold-eyed cruel dour thick-skinned flint-hearted forbidding frosty insentient cold-blooded inhuman

Antonyms

sentient

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin īnsēnsātus. By surface analysis, in- + sensate.

From the substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix).

From Latin īnsēnsātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.

Etymology [L. insensatus. See In- not, and Sensate.]

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