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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robust

UK /ɹəʊˈbʌst/ · US /ɹoʊˈbʌst/ adjective

Forms robuster robustest

  1. adjective Able to withstand adverse conditions.
  2. adjective Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy. “He was a robust man of six feet four.”
  3. adjective Requiring strength or vigor. “robust employment”
  4. adjective Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety. “robust findings”
  5. adjective (euphemistic) Rough; rude.
  6. adjective (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
  7. adjective (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
  8. adjective (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

Synonyms

sturdy full-bodied racy rich

Antonyms

fragile frail

Etymology

L. robustus oaken, hard, strong, fr. robur strength, a very hard kind of oak; cf. Skr. rabhas violence: cf. F. robuste.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
  2. adjective Violent; rough; rude.

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

Sanskrit

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

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