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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intelligent

/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/ adjective, noun

Forms intelligenter intelligentest intelligents entelligent

  1. adjective Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
  2. adjective Well thought-out, well considered. “The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.”
  3. adjective Characterized by thoughtful interaction. “My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.”
  4. adjective Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind. “The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.”
  5. adjective (computing) Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability. “an intelligent network or keyboard”
  6. noun A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.

Synonyms

self-aware astute brainy bright brilliant clever educated genius gifted hivey ingenious intellectual keen knowledgeable piquant quick quick on the uptake quick-witted rational sagacious well-informed healthy levelheaded level-headed sound reasoning thinking

Antonyms

stupid dumb unintelligent

Etymology

From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).

Partly from Russian интеллиге́нт (intelligént) and partly from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.
  2. adjective Possessed of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; marked by intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.

Etymology [L. intelligens, intellegens, -entis, p. pr. of intelligere, intellegere, to perceive; inter between + legere to gather, collect, choose: cf. F. intelligent. See Legend.]

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

Sanskrit

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