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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argumentative

UK /ˌɑːɡjʊˈmɛntətɪv/ · US /ˌɑɹɡjəˈmɛn(t)ətɪv/ adjective

  1. adjective Of or relating to argumentation; specifically, presenting a logical argument or line of reasoning; argumentive, discursive.
  2. adjective Prone to argue or dispute.

Synonyms

argumentary discursory agonistic bangsome bellicose belligerent contentious debateful discordant disputatious disputative factious fractious fratchety fratchy litigious logomachic pettifogging quarrelous quarrelsome

Antonyms

nonargumentative unargumentative

Etymology

From Late Middle English argumentatif (“syllogistic, sophistic”), from Old French argumentatif, argumentative (modern French argumentatif (“argumentative”)) and Medieval Latin, Late Latin argūmentātīvus, from Latin argūmentātor + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.
  2. adjective Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator. [Obs.]

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

Sanskrit

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