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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wicked

/ˈwɪk.ɪd/ adjective, adverb, noun

Also a form of wick

Forms wickeder wickedest the wicked

  1. adjective Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible. “Genuine cowards follow wicked people and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.”
  2. adjective Harsh; severe. “wicked wind”
  3. adjective (slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful; exceptional. “That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!”
  4. adverb (slang, slightly dated in Boston, archaic in Lancashire, Scotland) To a superlative extent, very, extremely “I didn't really wanna go see On Golden Pond with the fam, but my mom made me go, and I must say that in retrospect it was a wicked expressive film, with a lot of significant meaning.”
  5. noun Wicked (evil) people collectively.
  6. adjective Having a wick. “a two-wicked lamp”
  7. adjective (UK, dialect, obsolete) Active; brisk.
  8. adjective (UK, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.

Synonyms

evil immoral malevolent malicious nefarious twisted villainous abandoned arrant bad bad apple bad seed baleful scurrilous baneful base black-hearted dark deleterious demonic sinful unholy severe terrible arch impish implike mischievous pixilated prankish

Antonyms

virtuous

Etymology

From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker, Old Norse víkja (“to bend to, yield, turn, move”), Swedish vika (“to bend, fold, give way to”), English weak.
The "excellent, awesome" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "evil, mischievous". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and sick.

See wick.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having a wick; --used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
  2. Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; --said of persons and things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs.
  3. Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. wicked, fr. wicke wicked; probably originally the same word as wicche wizard, witch. See Witch.]

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

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