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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agreeably

/əˈɡɹiːəbli/ adverb

  1. adverb In an agreeable or pleasing manner
  2. adverb In accordance.
  3. adverb (obsolete) Alike; similarly.

Synonyms

becomingly favourably pleasingly suitably consistently conformably accordantly accordingly appropriately compliantly duly fitly properly rightly in kind alike equivalently likewise otherways reciprocally pleasantly enjoyably

Antonyms

disagreeably

Etymology

From Middle English agreablely, agreably; equivalent to agreeable + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.
  2. adverb In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; --followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4.

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

Sanskrit

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

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