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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perspicuous

UK /pəˈspɪkjuːəs/ · US /pərˈspɪkjəwəs/ adjective

  1. adjective Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  2. adjective (logic) (Of a language or notation) the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
  3. adjective (literal, rare) That can be seen through clearly; that lets light through.

Synonyms

transparent pervious apprehensible clear limpid comprehensible explainable explicable explicatable fathomable graspable illuminable intelligible lucid pellucid straightforward tangible understandable see-through translucent luculent crystal clear

Antonyms

abstruse Chinese dense enigmatic fathomless bottomless Greek inapprehensible incognizable incomprehensible ineffable inenubilable

Etymology

From Latin perspicuus, in turn from perspiciō (“see through”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.
  2. adjective Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements. "The purpose is perspicuous." Shak.

Etymology [L. perspicuus, from perspicere to look through. See Perspective.]

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

Sanskrit

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