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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outright

/aʊtˈɹaɪt/ adverb, adjective, verb

Forms outrights outrighting outrighted

  1. adverb Wholly; completely; entirely. “I refute those allegations outright.”
  2. adverb Openly and without reservation; unreservedly. “I have just responded outright to that question.”
  3. adverb At once. “Two people died outright and one more later.”
  4. adverb With no outstanding conditions. “I have bought the house outright.”
  5. adverb (informal) Blatantly; inexcusably; unambiguously. “That was an outright stupid thing to say.”
  6. adjective Unqualified and unreserved. “I demand an outright apology.”
  7. adjective Total or complete. “We achieved outright domination.”
  8. adjective Having no outstanding conditions. “I made an outright purchase of the house.”
  9. verb (sports) To release a player outright, without conditions.

Synonyms

downright absolutely all-out tout à fait all the way stone-cold blind altogether stark cold at large at length cap-a-pie categorically completely detailly entirely exhaustively finally first and last straight-out unlimited instantaneously instantly in a flash

Etymology

From Middle English outright. By surface analysis, out + right.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.
  2. adverb Completely; utterly. Cardinal Manning.

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

Sanskrit

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