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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conscious

UK /ˈkɒn.ʃəs/ · US /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ adjective, noun

Forms consciouses

  1. adjective Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active. “The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.”
  2. adjective Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness. “Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.”
  3. adjective Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about. “I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis”
  4. adjective Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
  5. adjective Known or felt personally, internally by a person. “conscious guilt”
  6. adjective (rare) Self-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.
  7. noun The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

Synonyms

intentional deliberate voluntary wilful intentional witting

Antonyms

asleep unaware unconscious

Etymology

First use appears c. 1573 in the sense of "aware of wrongdoing".https://web.archive.org/web/20220714064352/https://www.lexico.com/definition/conscious From Latin cōnscius (“conscious, conscious of guilt”), itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + scīre (“to know”) + -us.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.
  2. adjective Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.

Etymology [L. conscius; con- + scire to know. See Conscience.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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