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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seedy

/ˈsiːdi/ adjective

Forms seedier seediest

  1. adjective Containing or full of seeds. “Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.”
  2. adjective Seedlike; having the flavour of seeds.
  3. adjective (colloquial) Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy.
  4. adjective Shabby, run-down, possibly connected with bad, dishonest or illegal activities, somewhat disreputable.
  5. adjective Untidy, unkempt. “His seedy, dirt-smudged visage caused her to look at him askance.”
  6. adjective Infirm, unwell, gone to seed. “With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.”
  7. adjective Suffering the effects of a hangover. “After last night’s party we were all feeling pretty seedy.”

Synonyms

sleazy scruffy ailing indisposed peaked poorly sickly unwell under the weather seamy sordid squalid

Antonyms

seedless

Etymology

From Middle English sedy, equivalent to seed + -y.
The senses with negative connotation, first attested by 1725 in slang, originally especially “poor, out of money”, probably arose from the metaphor of a flower that has gone to seed, and is no longer considered beautiful. From there the word came to be used to describe unwell or past-their-prime people, and parallelly run-down places and by extension low-income or crime-affected urban areas. Compare the figurative expressions go to seed (by 1817), etc., originally in reference to plants, “cease flowering as seeds develop”.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
  2. adjective Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; --said of certain kinds of FRench brandy.

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

Sanskrit

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