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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scabrous

UK /ˈskeɪbɹəs/ · US /ˈskæbɹəs/ adjective

  1. adjective Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough. “After the incident with the gasoline, Noel’s burnt arm remained scabrous and was susceptible to infections.”
  2. adjective (figurative) Disgusting, repellent. “The novel was a flagrantly scabrous bodice-ripper, and Rachael was ashamed to read it in public.”
  3. adjective (figurative) Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
  4. adjective (figurative) Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
  5. adjective (figurative) Difficult, thorny, troublesome, requiring tact.
  6. adjective (figurative, chiefly US) Covered with a crust of dirt or grime.
  7. adjective (biology) Having scabers.

Synonyms

scabby scaly scurfy reef roynish scabrate scabrid scald scalled scurvy abrasive asperous coarse gimped harsh irregular jagged jaggy rough rugged lepidote leprose

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scaber (“scabrous, rough; scabby, mangy, itchy”) (from scabō (“to scratch, scrape, abrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to scratch”)) + English -ous; compare French scabreux, Late Latin scabrōsus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly. Arbuthnot.
  2. adjective Fig.: Harsh; unmusical. [R.]

Etymology [L. scabrosus, fr. scaber rough: cf. F. scabreux.]

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