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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terse

/tɜːs/ adjective

Forms terser tersest

  1. adjective (by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.
  2. adjective (by extension) Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt.
  3. adjective (obsolete) Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce.

Synonyms

concise succinct brief crisp laconic lapidary short-winded tight to the point taut abrupt brusque mardy short-spoken curt

Antonyms

prolix verbose wordy circumlocutory diffuse periphrastic palaverous pleonastic rigmarole sesquipedalian

Etymology

From Latin tersus (“clean, cleansed, rubbed or wiped off; neat, spruce; terse”), perfect passive participle of Latin tergeō, tergō (“to clean, cleanse, rub, wipe, wipe off”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
  2. adjective Refined; accomplished; --said of persons. [R. & Obs.] "Your polite and terse gallants." Massinger.

Etymology [L. tersus, p.p. of tergere to rub or wipe off.]

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