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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reprobate

/ˈɹɛpɹəbət/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms reprobates reprobating reprobated

  1. adjective (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
  2. adjective Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
  3. adjective Immoral, having no religious or principled character. “The reprobate criminal sneered at me.”
  4. noun One rejected by God; a sinful person.
  5. noun A person with low morals or principles.
  6. verb To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
  7. verb Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
  8. verb To refuse, set aside.

Synonyms

castoff discarded forcasten ever-damned goddamned hellbound damned deityforsaken deuced godforsaken tormented dissolute licentious profligate aberrant corrupt corrupted depraved lost dirty-handed miscreant condemn decry objurgate excoriate perverse perverted

Antonyms

approbate

Etymology

First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

First attested in c. 1451, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobaten, from reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin reprobātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Doublet of reprove.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.
  3. noun One morally abandoned and lost.
  4. verb To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.

Etymology [L. reprobatus, p. p. of reprobare to disapprove, condemn. See Reprieve, Reprove.]

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

Sanskrit

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