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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sanguine

/ˈsæŋ.ɡwɪn/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms sanguines sanguining sanguined

  1. adjective (literary) Having the colour of blood; blood red.
  2. adjective (obsolete, physiology) Having a bodily constitution characterised by a preponderance of blood over the other bodily humours, thought to be marked by irresponsible mirth; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.
  3. adjective Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood. “a sanguine bodily temperament”
  4. adjective Warm; ardent. “a sanguine temper”
  5. adjective Anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope. “I'm sanguine about the eventual success of the project.”
  6. adjective (archaic) Full of blood; bloody.
  7. adjective (archaic) Bloodthirsty.
  8. noun Blood colour; red.
  9. noun Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.
  10. noun (heraldry) A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).
  11. noun Bloodstone.
  12. noun Red crayon.
  13. verb To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.

Synonyms

incarnadine debaucherous sybaritic animated buoyant spirited assured bright bullish cheerful cheery confident hopeful optimistic positive ridibund upbeat bloodied gory sanguinolent rubicund ruddy florid

Antonyms

blue despondent gloomy pessimistic

Etymology

From Middle English sanguine, from Old French sanguin, ultimately from Latin sanguineus (“of blood”), from sanguis (“blood”) (of uncertain origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sh₂-én-, from *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”), with an obscure suffix such as *-ǵʰ- (related to body parts)) + -inus + -eus. The obsolete medical sense is in reference to the humour (blood) which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with cheerfulness, optimism, confidence, liveliness, and spiritedness. Doublet of sanguineous.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the color of blood; red. Of his complexion he was sanguine. Chaucer.
  2. adjective Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
  3. noun Blood color; red. Spenser.
  4. noun Anything of a blood-red, as cloth. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. sanguin, L. sanguineus, fr. sanguis blood. Cf. Sanguineous.]

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