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

excellent

/ˈɛk.sə.lənt/ adjective, adverb

  1. adjective Having excelled, having surpassed.
  2. adjective Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
  3. adjective Exceptionally good of its kind. “Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.”
  4. adjective Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
  5. adverb (obsolete) Excellently.

Synonyms

number one ace admirable amazing awe-inspiring awesome badass broyal bang on bang-up studly based beatific beneship bitching blissful bomb brilliant bully celestial first-class fantabulous splendid

Antonyms

poor terrible bad inferior

Etymology

From Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel + -ent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.
  2. adjective Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; --used with words of a bad significance. [Obs. or Ironical] "An excellent hypocrite." Hume.
  3. adverb Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [Obs.] "This comes off well and excellent." Shak.

Etymology [F. excellent, L. excellens, -entis, p. pr. of excellere. See Excel.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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