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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immaculate

UK /ɪˈmækjʊlət/ · US /ɪˈmæk.jʊ.lət/ adjective

  1. adjective Having no blemish or stain; absolutely clean and tidy.
  2. adjective Containing no mistakes; free from fault.
  3. adjective (specifically) Of a book, manuscript, etc.: having no textual errors.
  4. adjective (archaic) Free from sin; morally pure; sinless.
  5. adjective (Roman Catholicism) Of the Virgin Mary or her womb: pure, undefiled.
  6. adjective (botany, zoology, especially entomology) Lacking blotches, spots, or other markings.

Synonyms

clear lily-white spotless stainless unsullied clean clean as a bean clean as a hound's tooth clean as a new penny clean as a new pin clean as a whistle pristine spick-and-span squeaky clean unsoiled flawless impeccable perfect unblemished faultless speckless spic-and-span spic spick undefiled

Antonyms

maculate unimmaculate stained dirty befouled besmirched clarty cruddy dirtsome foul grotty grubby

Etymology

From Late Middle English immaculat, immaculate (“blameless; flawless, spotless; specifically of the Virgin Mary: pure, undefiled”), borrowed from Latin immaculātus (“unstained”), from im- (negative prefix) + maculātus (“stained, spotted; defiled, polluted; (figurative) dishonoured”), the perfect passive participle of maculō (“to spot, stain; to defile, pollute; (figurative) to dishonour”), from macula (“a blemish, spot, stain; (figurative) blot on one’s character, fault”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smh₂-tló-m (“wiping (?)”), from *smeh₂- (“to rub; to smear”). The word displaced Middle English unwemmed (“pure, untainted”). See also -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, im- + macule + -ate.
* Italian immacolato, immaculato (obsolete)
* Middle French immaculé (modern French immaculé)

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.

Etymology [L. immaculatus; pref. im- not + maculatus, p. p. of maculare to spot, stane, fr. macula spot. See Mail armor.]

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

Sanskrit

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