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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invalid

/ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms invalids invaliding invalided

  1. adjective Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable, or appropriate. “Your argument is invalid because it uses circular reasoning.”
  2. noun (dated, sometimes offensive) Any person with a disability or illness.
  3. noun (dated, sometimes offensive) A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves.
  4. noun (archaic) A disabled member of the armed forces; one unfit for active duty due to injury.
  5. adjective Suffering from disability or illness.
  6. adjective Intended for use by an invalid.
  7. verb (UK, transitive) To exempt from (often military) duty because of injury or ill health. “He was invalided home after the car crash.”
  8. verb (transitive) To make invalid or affect with disease.

Synonyms

disallowed nonvalid shut-in disable incapacitate handicap

Antonyms

valid

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French invalide, from Latin invalidus (“infirm, weak”), from in- (“not”) + validus (“strong”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
  2. adjective Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.
  3. noun A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.
  4. adjective Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.

Etymology [Pref. in- not + valid: cf. F. invalide, L. invalidus infirm, weak. Cf. Invalid infirm.]

Etymology [F. invalide, n. & a., L. invalidus, a. See Invalid null.]

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

Sanskrit

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