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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good

/ɡʊd/ adjective, interjection, adverb, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of better

Forms better gooder best goodest goods gooding gooded the Good gooid gud goode

  1. adjective Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral. “good intentions”
  2. adjective Competent or talented. “a good swimmer”
  3. adjective Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for. “Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.”
  4. adjective Well-behaved (especially of children or animals). “Be good while your mother and I are out.”
  5. adjective (US) Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more. “Would you like a glass of water? — I'm good.”
  6. adjective (colloquial, with with) Accepting of, OK with “My mother said she's good with me being alone with my date as long as she's met them first.”
  7. adjective (archaic) Of high rank or birth.
  8. adjective Useful for a particular purpose; functional. “it’s a good watch;  the flashlight batteries are still good”
  9. interjection That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation. “Good! I can leave now.”
  10. adverb (informal, sometimes proscribed) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly. “When you're cleaning these racks, you've got to get in there good, because the quality system specifies it.”
  11. noun (uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
  12. noun (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
  13. noun (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc. “The best is the enemy of the good.”
  14. noun (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
  15. noun (countable, usually in the plural) An article of personal property (as opposed to real property).
  16. verb (intransitive) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
  17. verb (transitive) To make good; turn to good; improve.
  18. verb (intransitive) To make improvements or repairs.
  19. verb (intransitive) To benefit; gain.
  20. verb (transitive) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.

Synonyms

goodness accomplished not bad well all right satisfactory decent acceptable agreeable amazing as fine as Dick's hatband awesome beatific bene blissful bodacious bona brilliant celestial commendable commodity trade good full estimable honorable respectable beneficial just upright adept

Antonyms

bad poor evil awful detestable disagreeable dreadful horrible terrible unsatisfactory

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit, fit”).
Related to gather and together, but not to god/God.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English bon, bone, boon, boun (“good”) borrowed from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”).
Cognate with Scots gude, guid (“good”), Yola gayde, gooude, gude (“good”), North Frisian goud, gud, guid, gur, gödj, gööd (“good”), Saterland Frisian goud (“good”), West Frisian goed (“good”), Alemannic German guet (“good”), Bavarian guad (“good”), Central Franconian gut, jot, jott (“good”), Cimbrian guat, guut (“good”), Dutch goed (“good”), Dutch Low Saxon good (“good”), German gut (“good”), Limburgish good, gott (“good”), Low German god, goot, got, gued (“good”), Luxembourgish gutt (“good”), Mòcheno guat (“good”), Vilamovian güt (“good”), Yiddish גוט (gut, “good”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish god (“good”), Elfdalian guoð (“good”), Faroese and Icelandic góður (“good”), Gothic 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gōþs, “good”), Vandalic *guths (“good”); also Albanian nge (“chance, leisure, opportunity, time”), Latvian gods (“honor”), Lithuanian guõdas (“nobleness, virtue; glory, honour”), Belarusian го́дны (hódny, “worthy”), Bulgarian го́ден (góden, “fit, suitable”), Czech hodný (“good, kind”), Polish godny, godzien (“dignified, worthy”), Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), Ukrainian гі́дний (hídnyj, “deserving, worthy”), го́дний (hódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”).

Inherited from Middle English goode (“good, well”, adverb), from the adjective. Compare Dutch goed (“good, well”, adverb), German gut (“good, well”, adverb), Danish godt (“good, well”, adverb), Swedish gott (“good, well”, adverb), all from the adjective.

Inherited from Middle English good, god, from Old English gōd (“a good thing, advantage, benefit, gift; good, goodness, welfare; virtue, ability, doughtiness; goods, property, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdą (“goods, belongings”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-, *gʰodʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Compare German Gut (“item of merchandise; estate; property”).

Inherited from Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdōn (“to make better, improve”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good, favorable”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. Gen. i. 31.
  2. adjective Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; --said of persons or actions.
  3. noun That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; --opposed to evil.
  4. noun Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; --opposed to harm, etc. The good of the whole community can be promoted only by advancing the good of each of the members composing it. Jay.

Etymology [AS. God, akin to D. goed, OS. god, OHG. guot, G. gut, Icel. goedhr, Sw. & Dan. god, Goth. gods; prob. orig., fitting, belonging together, and akin to E. gather. sq. root29 Cf. Gather.]

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

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