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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insoluble

UK /ɪnˈsɒljʊbəl/ · US /ɪnˈsɑljəbəl/ adjective, noun

Forms insolubles

  1. adjective (physical chemistry) That cannot be dissolved. “Petroleum is largely insoluble in water.”
  2. adjective That cannot be solved.
  3. adjective That cannot be explained.
  4. adjective That cannot be broken down or dispersed.
  5. noun Any substance that cannot be dissolved.

Synonyms

indissoluble undissolvable insolvable unsolvable inexplicable unexplainable unexplained mysterious abstruse Chinese dense enigmatic fathomless bottomless Greek inapprehensible incognizable incomprehensible ineffable inenubilable

Antonyms

soluble dissoluble dissolvable solvable

Etymology

From Middle English insolible, from Middle French insoluble, from Latin insolūbilis, from in- + solūbilis. Piecewise doublet of insolvable and unsolvable. By surface analysis, in- + soluble.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water.
  2. adjective Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty.

Etymology [L. insolubilis indissoluble, that can not be loosed: cf. F. insoluble. See In- not, and Soluble, and cf. Insolvable.]

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