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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painful

/ˈpeɪn.fl̩/ adjective

Forms painfuller painfullest painfull

  1. adjective Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
  2. adjective Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
  3. adjective Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
  4. adjective (archaic) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
  5. adjective (informal) Very bad, poor. “His violin playing is painful.”

Synonyms

excruciating torturous agonizing ailsome groanful hellish hurtful bruising painable terrible tormenting tormentous unpleasant wrenchful doleful sorrowful smartful irksome annoying laborious afflictive sore atrocious abominable awful dreadful unspeakable irritating

Antonyms

painless painfree acheless agreeable pain-free pleasant unaching

Etymology

From Middle English paynful, peinful, peynful, paynefull, peynefull, equivalent to pain + -ful. Compare Danish pinefuld (“painful”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison.
  2. adjective Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

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

Sanskrit

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

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