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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crying

/ˈkɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of cry

Forms cryings

  1. adjective That cries. “The crying child on the street was evidently lost.”
  2. adjective That demands action or attention; desperate. “There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.”
  3. adjective That deserves rebuke or censure; deplorable. “It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!”
  4. noun The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting. “Their constant cryings kept us awake!”

Synonyms

in tears sobbing weeping sobful tearful tears clamant exigent insistent instant egregious flagrant glaring gross rank

Antonyms

cheering laughing smiling uncrying untearful unweeping

Etymology

From cry + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.

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

Sanskrit

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

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