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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nervous

/ˈnɜːvəs/ adjective

Forms nervouser nervousest

  1. adjective (obsolete) Full of sinews.
  2. adjective (obsolete) Having strong or prominent sinews; sinewy, muscular.
  3. adjective (obsolete) Of a piece of writing, literary style etc.: forceful, powerful.
  4. adjective Supplied with nerves; innervated.
  5. adjective Affecting or involving the nerves or nervous system.
  6. adjective (botany, obsolete) Nervose.
  7. adjective Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge. “Being in a crowd of strangers makes me nervous.”
  8. adjective Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.

Synonyms

excitable high-strung hypersensitive angstful apprehensive anxious careful concerned distraught disturbed edgy fraught freaked out hagridden jittery jumpy leery nervy on edge perturbable queasy uneasy unquiet neural aflutter skittish flighty spooky

Antonyms

calm relaxed intrepid unperturbed unworried

Etymology

From Middle English nervous (“composed of or incorporating nerves”), from Latin nervōsus (“nervous; sinewy; energetic, vigorous”), from nervus (“nerve; muscle; sinew, tendon; (figuratively) energy, power; nerve; force, strength, vigour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). The English word is analysable as nerve + -ous.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous. "Nervous arms." Pope.
  2. adjective Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.

Etymology [L. nervosus sinewy, vigorous: cf. F. nerveux. See Nerve.]

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

Sanskrit

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