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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despite

/dɪˈspaɪt/ preposition, noun, verb

Forms despites despiting despited despight

  1. preposition In spite of, notwithstanding. “Despite being a near-mirror image my of right, my left hand is terrible at these stuff.”
  2. noun (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
  3. noun (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
  4. noun Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.
  5. verb (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

Synonyms

in spite of maugre with for all irrespective of notwithstanding regardless of without considering without regard for contempt disdain scorn

Antonyms

because of

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English despit, dispit, from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”).
The preposition is derived from Middle English dispit, itself derived from the phrase in dispit of (in despite of).
Compare typologically Russian несмотря́ на (nesmotrjá na) (< смотре́ть (smotrétʹ)); невзира́я на (nevzirája na) (< взира́ть (vzirátʹ)), презре́в (prezrév) (< презре́ть (prezrétʹ) <~ зреть (zretʹ)) (compare despite—despise relation).

From Middle English despite, dispite, dyspite, dyspyte, from Old French despitier.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.
  2. noun An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.
  3. verb To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
  4. preposition In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.

Etymology [OF. despit, F. dépit, fr. L. despectus contempt, fr. despicere. See Despise, and cf. Spite, Despect.]

Etymology [OF. despitier, fr. L. despectare, intens. of despicere. See Despite, n.]

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