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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malignant

/məˈlɪɡnənt/ adjective, noun

Forms malignants

  1. adjective Harmful, malevolent, injurious. “malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection”
  2. adjective (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue. “malignant diphtheria”
  3. noun A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.
  4. noun (historical, derogatory, obsolete) A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.

Synonyms

malicious malign malefic

Antonyms

benign non-malignant

Etymology

From Middle French malignant, from Late Latin malignans. See malign.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
  2. adjective Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious. "Malignant care." Macaulay.
  3. noun A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. Hooker.
  4. noun One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; --so called by the opposite party.

Etymology [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See Malign, and cf. Benignant.]

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

Sanskrit

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