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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rare

UK /ɹɛə/ · US /ɹɛɚ/ adjective, noun, verb

Also a form of rear

Forms rarer rarest rares raring rared reer rere

  1. adjective Very uncommon; scarce. “Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable.”
  2. adjective (medicine, pathology) Small in number (but not unusual); infrequent; sparse.
  3. adjective (of a gas) Thin; of low density.
  4. adjective (UK, slang) Good; enjoyable.
  5. adjective (US, slang) Cool; excellent.
  6. noun (gaming) A scarce or uncommon item.
  7. adjective (cooking) Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.
  8. verb (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
  9. verb (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise.
  10. adjective (obsolete) Early.

Synonyms

scarce selcouth seld selly geason uncommon dearthy few and far between infrequent in short supply non-common raresome scant scantling seldom superrare unfrequent rarefied rarified

Antonyms

common frequent average basic bog-standard common as bums common as dirt common as muck common as pig tracks dime a dozen everyday general

Etymology

From Middle English rare, from Old French rare, rere (“rare, uncommon”), from Latin rārus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“friable, thin”). Displaced native English geason (“rare, scarce”) (from Middle English gesen, from Old English gǣsne); and largely displaced Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden) and Middle English seldscene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old English seldsēne)
hence modern English seld

From a dialectal variant of rear, from Middle English rere, from Old English hrēr, hrēre (“not thoroughly cooked, underdone, lightly boiled”), from hrēran (“to move, shake, agitate”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōzijaną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱroHs- (“to mix, stir, cook”). Related to Old English hrōr (“stirring, busy, active, strong, brave”). More at rear.

Variant of rear.

Compare rather, rath.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Early. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
  3. adjective Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
  4. adjective Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.

Etymology [Cf. Rather, Rath.]

Etymology [Cf. AS. hrer, or E. rare early.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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