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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retard

UK /ɹɪˈtɑːd/ · US /ɹɪˈtɑɹd/ noun, verb

Forms retards retarding retarded

  1. noun A retardation; a delay.
  2. noun (music) A slowing down of the tempo; a ritardando.
  3. noun (offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation. “The retard in our class needs special help.”
  4. noun (informal, offensive) A person or being who is extremely stupid or slow to learn.
  5. verb (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing. “retard the march of an army”
  6. verb (transitive) To put off; to postpone. “to retard the attacks of old age”
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
  8. verb (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.
  9. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To stay back.

Synonyms

delay hold-up retardation tard imbecile idiot moron alcatote asshat arsehole asshole bayard berk birdbrain blither bobchin bonehead bozo buffoon brickhead cretin changeling half-wit check decelerate slow slow down slow up

Antonyms

accelerate speed speed up come forward

Etymology

From Middle English retarden, from Anglo-Norman retarder, from Latin retardō (“to retard”, from re- + tardus (“slow”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; --opposed to Ant: accelerate.
  2. verb To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
  3. verb To stay back. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.
  4. noun Retardation; delay. Retard, or Age, of the tide, the interval between the transit of the moon at which a tide originates and the appearance of the tide itself. It is found, in general, that any particular tide is not principally due to the moon's transit immediatelly proceeding, but to a transit which has occured some time before, and which is said to correspond to it. The retard of the tide is thus distinguished from the lunitidal interval. See under Retardation. rHam. Nav. Encyc.

Etymology [L. retardare, retardatum; pref. re- re- + tardare to make slow, to delay, fr. tardus slow: cf. F. retarder. See Tardy.]

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

Sanskrit

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