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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necessity

/nɪˈsɛsəti/ noun

Forms necessities

  1. noun The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite. “I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.”
  2. noun The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
  3. noun Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable. “A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.”
  4. noun Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power. “After eating a full meal, the human body's necessity for food will compel the person to eat again in the future.”
  5. noun The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
  6. noun (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act. “doctrine of necessity”
  7. noun (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).

Synonyms

necessariness inevitability needfulness certainty requisite essential requirement necessary

Antonyms

impossibility contingency luxury

Etymology

From Middle English necessite, from Old French necessite, from Latin necessitās (“unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity”), from necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”); see necessary. Doublet of Necessitas.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
  2. noun The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.

Etymology [OE. necessite, F. nécessité, L. necessitas, fr. necesse. See Necessary.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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