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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avoidable

/əˈvɔɪdəbl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms avoidables

  1. adjective Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
  2. adjective Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped. “The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.”
  3. noun Something that can or should be avoided.

Synonyms

annullable voidable evitable avertable dodgeable escapable evadable fleeable nonmandatory nonobligatory optional preventable preventible resistible skippable avertible

Antonyms

inavoidable unavoidable inviolable unbreakable unbreachable inevitable impossible

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
  2. adjective Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

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

Sanskrit

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