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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abusive

UK /əˈbjuː.sɪv/ · US /əˈbju.sɪv/ adjective

  1. adjective Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. “All they could ever do was to shout abusive inanities at me.”
  2. adjective (obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
  3. adjective (archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse.
  4. adjective Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
  5. adjective Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
  6. adjective (archaic) Catachrestic.

Synonyms

scurrilous reproachful opprobrious insolent insulting injurious offensive reviling berating vituperative

Antonyms

abuseless nonabusive unabusive

Etymology

First attested in the 1530s. From French abusif, from Latin abūsīvus, from abusus + -ivus (“-ive”). Equivalent to abuse + -ive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
  2. adjective Given to misusing; also, full of abuses. [Archaic] "The abusive prerogatives of his see." Hallam.

Etymology [Cf. F. abusif, fr. L. abusivus.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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