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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purblind

UK /ˈpɜːblaɪnd/ · US /ˈpɝblaɪnd/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms purblinds purblinding purblinded poreblind

  1. adjective Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.
  2. adjective Of the eyes: unable to see well, especially due to old age; weak.
  3. adjective Of a person: lacking in discernment or understanding; dim-witted, unintelligent.
  4. adjective Of a place: poorly illuminated; dark, dim.
  5. adjective Completely blind.
  6. adjective Having one eye blind.
  7. adjective Near-sighted, short-sighted; myopic.
  8. adjective (rare) Far-sighted, long-sighted; hypermetropic.
  9. noun A person who has impaired vision or is partially blind.
  10. verb (transitive, literary, often passive voice) To cause (someone) to have impaired vision or become partially blind.

Synonyms

bisson half-sighted moonblind purblinded sandblind obtuse addlebrained addlepated airheaded bee-brained beef-witted soft beefheaded beetle-headed birdbrained blockheaded Boeotian boneheaded boofheaded braindead dim-sighted near-blind sand-blind visually impaired visually challenged

Antonyms

astute brainy bright brilliant clever educated genius gifted hivey ingenious intellectual intelligent

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Middle English purblind (“(adjective) completely blind; blind in one eye; near-sighted; (noun) near-sighted animal, specifically a hare”) [and other forms], possibly from pur, pure (“completely, entirely”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to be clean; pure”); influenced by pur- (prefix meaning ‘completely; forward; in advance’)) + blind (“sightless, blind”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to blend, mix up; to make cloudy or opaque”)).
Adjective sense 4.1 (“completely blind”) was the original sense. The senses denoting partial blindness are possibly the result of confusion of the first element pur- with poor, perhaps through folk etymology. (Compare parboil regarding per versus pars.)
The noun and verb are derived from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Wholly blind. "Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight." Shak.
  2. adjective Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole.

Etymology [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind. See Pure, and cf. Poreblind.]

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