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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drunk

/dɹʌŋk/ adjective, adverb, noun

Also a form of drink

Forms drunker drunkest drunks

  1. adjective Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
  2. adjective (derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
  3. adjective (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened. “Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.”
  4. adjective Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
  5. adverb While drunk. “He was arrested for driving drunk.”
  6. noun One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
  7. noun A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
  8. noun A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind. “He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.”
  9. noun A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
  10. noun A drunken state.

Synonyms

tipsy buzzed boozy sottish wet Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous drunkard rummy sot inebriate wino intoxicated inebriated

Antonyms

abstemious clean clearheaded on the wagon sober sober as a judge teetotal

Etymology

From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,
getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; - -never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
  2. adjective Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
  3. noun A drunken condition; a spree. [Slang]

Etymology [OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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