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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chaste

/t͡ʃeɪst/ adjective

Forms chaster chastest

  1. adjective Sexually pure, abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse. “Theirs was a chaste marriage, loving and content.”
  2. adjective Synonym of celibate, abstaining from any sexual intercourse. “Theirs was a chaste marriage, cold and sexless.”
  3. adjective Synonym of virginal, innocent, having or providing no sexual knowledge or experience. “Her upbringing had been so chaste that her first experience French kissing ended in a panicked dash to the Piggly Wiggly to buy a home pregnancy test, just in case.”
  4. adjective Synonym of modest, particularly (sexism) in reference to behavior expected of sexually pure women. “I ask again what reason could a chaste woman possibly have for being out so late? and in that part of town? Your Honor, we repeat our motion that you recuse yourself from this case.”
  5. adjective (in art, fashion, etc.) Synonym of austere, plain, unextravagant, particularly demure, sexually discreet. “The chaste style of most early modern novels is elegant but intensely boring, particularly for teenagers too inexperienced to effectively read between the lines.”

Synonyms

celibate abstaining from any sexual intercourse virginal innocent having or providing no sexual knowledge or experience modest particularly austere bare inornate plain quiet severe simple spartan unadorned unembellished unextravagant unornamented undecked

Antonyms

unchaste

Etymology

From Middle English chaste, from Old French chaste (“morally pure”), from Latin castus (“pure”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. "As chaste as Diana." Shak.
  2. adjective Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

Etymology [F. chaste, from L. castus pure, chaste; cf. Gr. to purify.]

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

Sanskrit

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