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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

uncivilized

/ʌnˈsɪvəlaɪzd/ adjective

Forms uncivilised

  1. adjective Not having developed a civilization. “The explorers wrote about the so-called uncivilized tribes.”
  2. adjective Crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured. “utterly uncivilized”
  3. adjective Lacking good manners. “uncivilized behavior”

Synonyms

barbaric pagan uncultivated animalistic barbarian barbarious barbarous brutal brutish Gothic Gothlike grim heathen heathenish heathenly heathenous incivil savage tenebrose truculent uncivilised wild

Etymology

From un- + civilized.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude; barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa.
  2. adjective Not civil; coarse; clownish. [R.] Addison.

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