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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critical

/ˈkɹɪt.ɪ.kəl/ adjective, noun

Forms criticals

  1. adjective Inclined to find fault or criticize. “A good teacher is fair but critical.”
  2. adjective Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point. “This is a critical moment.”
  3. adjective Extremely important. “It's critical that you deliver this on time.”
  4. adjective Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism. “The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.”
  5. adjective (textual criticism) Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
  6. adjective (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility. “The patient's condition is critical.”
  7. adjective (medicine, by extension) In such a condition. “The patient is critical.”
  8. adjective Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable. “The political situation was so critical that the government declared the state of siege.”
  9. noun A critical value, factor, etc.
  10. noun critical hit
  11. noun In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

Synonyms

fastidious captious censorious exacting judgmental slashing crucial imperative crit vital decisive

Antonyms

uncritical noncritical

Etymology

From Latin criticus + English -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.
  2. adjective Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.

Etymology [See Critic, n., Crisis.]

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

Sanskrit

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