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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physical

/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/ adjective, noun

Forms physicals physickal

  1. adjective (obsolete) Pertaining to the field of medicine; medical.
  2. adjective (obsolete) That practises medicine; pertaining to doctors, physicianly.
  3. adjective (obsolete) Medicinal; good for the health, curative, therapeutic.
  4. adjective Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind, having to do with the material world. “It's not so much a physical place as a state of mind.”
  5. adjective In accordance with the laws of nature; now specifically, pertaining to physics. “The substance has a number of interesting physical properties.”
  6. adjective Denoting a map showing natural features of the landscape (compare political).
  7. adjective Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily. “Insults can hurt a lot more than physical injuries.”
  8. adjective Sexual, carnal. “to get physical”
  9. noun (medicine) A physical examination. “How long has it been since your last physical?”
  10. noun (parapsychology) A physical manifestation of psychic origin, as through ectoplasmic solidification.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

mental psychical psychological spiritual having to do with the mind spirit viewed as distinct from body

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin physicālis, from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from φύσις (phúsis, “origin, birth; nature, quality; form, shape; type, kind”), from φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man. Labor, in the physical world, is . . . employed in putting objects in motion. J. S. Mill.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws. "Physical philosophy." Pope.

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

Sanskrit

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

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