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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sinister

UK /ˈsɪ.nɪ.stə/ · US /ˈsɪ.nɪ.stəɹ/ adjective

Forms sinistre

  1. adjective Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate.
  2. adjective Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm. “sinister influences”
  3. adjective (archaic) Of the left side.
  4. adjective (heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.

Synonyms

foreboding portentous augurous baleful bodeful boding dire disastrous divine fatal ill-boding ill-fated ill-omened ill-starred inauspicate inauspicious nefastous omenic ominous brooding forbidding menacing minacious minatory threatening black dark

Antonyms

dexter

Etymology

From Middle English sinistre (“unlucky”), from Old French senestre, sinistre (“left”), from Latin sinister (“left hand”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; --opposed to dexter, or right. "Here on his sinister cheek." Shak.
  2. adjective Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; --the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.

Etymology [Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.]

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