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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malign

/məˈlaɪn/ adjective, verb

Forms maligns maligning maligned

  1. adjective Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
  2. adjective Malevolent.
  3. adjective (oncology) Malignant. “a malign ulcer”
  4. verb (transitive) To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
  5. verb (transitive, archaic) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.

Synonyms

asperse denigrate libel assassinate backbite badmouth befoul belibel besmirch besmear bewray blacken blame blaze blemish blot blur calumniate calumny chat shit traduce drag through the mud malefic malevolent evil

Antonyms

benign

Etymology

From Middle English maligne, from Old French maligne, from Latin malignus, from malus (“bad”) + genus (“sort, kind”). Compare benign.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; --opposed to benign.
  2. adjective Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
  3. verb To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.]
  4. verb To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.

Etymology [L. malignus, for maligenus, i. e., of a bad kind or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F. malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and cf. Benign, Malignant.]

Etymology [Cf. L. malignare. See Malign, a.]

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