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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rabid

/ˈɹæbɪd/ adjective, noun

Forms rabider rabidest rabids

  1. adjective Affected with rabies. “a rabid dog or fox”
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia. “a rabid virus”
  3. adjective (by extension) Furious; raging; extremely violent.
  4. adjective (figurative) Very extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous. “a rabid socialist”
  5. noun A human or animal infected with rabies.
  6. noun Someone who is fanatical in opinion.

Synonyms

mad fierce infuriate raging ferocious furious rampant grim incessive savage volatile wild ardent fanatical maximum utmost extreme exquisite intense almighty fanatic overzealous

Etymology

From the Latin rabidus, from rabiō (“to rave”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Furious; raging; extremely violent.
  2. adjective Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.

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