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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tidy

/ˈtaɪ.di/ adjective, verb, noun, interjection, proper noun

Forms tidier tidiest tidies tidying tidied

  1. adjective Arranged neatly and in order. “She always kept her desk immaculately tidy; nothing was ever out of place.”
  2. adjective Not messy; neat and controlled. “Keep Britain tidy by picking up litter.”
  3. adjective (colloquial) Satisfactory; comfortable.
  4. adjective (colloquial) Generous, considerable. “The scheme made a tidy profit.”
  5. adjective (obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
  6. adjective (obsolete) Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
  7. adjective Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
  8. adjective (data science, of data in a dataset) Normalized in a certain way that optimizes for data analysis.
  9. verb To make tidy; to neaten.
  10. noun (now chiefly in combination with a modifier) A container or other device for storing or organizing loose items in a tidy fashion. “desk tidy; sink tidy; cable tidy”
  11. noun A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
  12. noun (dated) A child's pinafore.
  13. noun The wren.
  14. interjection (Wales) Expression of agreement or positive acknowledgement, usually in reply to a question; great, fine.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

neat opportune apt orderly presentable spick and span clean seasonable fit tidy up clean up neaten straighten straighten out square away kempt goodly goodish healthy hefty respectable sizable sizeable

Antonyms

messy untidy slipshod

Etymology

From Middle English tidy, tydy, tidi (“timely, seasonal, opportune”), from tide (“time”) + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian tiedig (“timely, early”), Dutch tijdig (“timely”), German Low German tiedig (“timely”), German zeitig (“seasonal, timely”), Danish tidig (“timely”), Swedish tidig (“timely”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The wren; --called also tiddy. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. adjective Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather. [Obs.]
  3. adjective Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy.
  4. noun A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.

Etymology [From Tide time, season; cf. D. tijdig timely, G. zeitig, Dan. & Sw. tidig.]

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