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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mild

/ˈmaɪld/ adjective, noun

Forms milder mildest milds milde

  1. adjective Gentle and not easily angered “a mild man”
  2. adjective (of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict. “He received a mild sentence.”
  3. adjective Conciliatory, nonpolemical; gentle in tone.
  4. adjective Not overly felt or seriously intended.
  5. adjective (of an illness or pain) Not serious or dangerous.
  6. adjective (of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected. “a mild day”
  7. adjective (of a medicine or cosmetic) Acting gently and without causing harm. “a mild anaesthetic”
  8. adjective (of food, drink, or a drug) Not sharp or bitter; not strong in flavor. “a mild curry”
  9. noun (UK) A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale

Synonyms

soft gentle bland calm tranquil soothing pleasant placid meek kind tender indulgent clement mollifying lenitive assuasive modest balmy

Antonyms

strong harsh severe irritating violent disagreeable intense

Etymology

From Middle English milde, from Old English milde (“mild”), from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (“mild”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to beat, pound, grind”).
Cognate with Scots mild, myld (“mild”), Saterland Frisian milde (“mild”), West Frisian myld (“mild”), Dutch mild (“mild”), Low German milde (“mild”), German mild (“mild”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål mild (“mild”), Icelandic mildur (“mild”), Latin mollis (“soft, gentle”), Lithuanian malonus (“pleasing, pleasant, kind”), Old Norse mildr.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; --the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; --applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

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

Sanskrit

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

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