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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basic

/ˈbeɪsɪk/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms basics

  1. adjective Necessary, essential for life or some process. “Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.”
  2. adjective Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional. “The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is very basic.”
  3. adjective (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
  4. adjective (informal) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
  5. noun A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. “Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.”
  6. noun An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. “Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.”
  7. noun (military) Basic training. “The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.”
  8. proper noun Any of a family of third-generation programming languages. “Many programs were written for the Sinclair Spectrum computer in BASIC.”
  9. proper noun A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on). “Many programs were written for the Sinclair Spectrum computer in BASIC.”

Synonyms

indispensable needed essential necessar necessary necessitous prerequisite required requisite no-frills spartan austere bare bare-bones bargain cheap default discreet economy elemental staple canonic canonical introductory

Antonyms

acidic incidental

Etymology

Acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, but designed to spell out basic (i.e. simplistic). First use appears c. 1964 in the BASIC Instruction Manual.

An initialism of Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective (a) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
  2. adjective Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt. Basic salt (Chem.), a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical.

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