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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incurable

UK /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/ · US /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/ adjective, noun

Forms incurables

  1. adjective Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
  2. adjective (figuratively) Irremediable, incorrigible. “an incurable romantic”
  3. noun One who cannot be cured.

Synonyms

uncurable

Antonyms

curable

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
  2. adjective Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
  3. noun A person diseased beyond cure.

Etymology [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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