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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abstemious

UK /æbˈstiː.mɪ.əs/ · US /æbˈsti.mi.əs/ adjective

  1. adjective Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
  2. adjective Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
  3. adjective Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
  4. adjective Marked by, or spent in, abstinence. “an abstemious life”
  5. adjective (rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.

Synonyms

abstinent sober temperate abstentious continent otherish selfless self-abnegatory self-denying self-flagellatory self-sacrificing unselfish calm collected composed cool dispassionate inexcitable imperturbable regular light

Antonyms

extravagant squandering improvident imprudent lavish loose-handed prodigal profligate reckless spendthrift uneconomical unthrifty gluttonous

Etymology

From Latin abstēmius (“abstaining from wine”); from ab, abs (“from”) + tēmus, a root of tēmētum (“intoxicating drink, especially strong mead or wine”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark (referring to the colour of wine)”)) + -ous.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.]
  2. adjective Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.

Etymology [L. abstemius; ab, abs + root of temetum intoxicating drink.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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