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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sedentary

UK /ˈsɛd.ən.tə.ɹi/ · US /ˈsɛd.ən.tɛɹ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms sedentaries

  1. adjective Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity. “The oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.”
  2. adjective (anthropology) Of a human population, living in a fixed geographical location.
  3. adjective (medicine) Of a job, lifestyle, etc., not moving much; sitting around; inactive.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Caused by long sitting.
  6. noun A sedentary person.

Synonyms

immobile settled non-migratory chairborne sitsome abeyant motionless torpid cessant dormant

Antonyms

nomadic migratory antonym(s) of

Etymology

From Middle French sédentaire, from Latin sedentārius (“sitting”), from sedeō (“to sit, to be seated”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man. "Sedentary, scholastic sophists." Bp. Warburton.
  2. adjective Characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life.

Etymology [L. sedentarius, fr. sedere to sit: cf. F. seédentaire. See Sedent.]

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