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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docile

UK /ˈdəʊ.saɪl/ · US /ˈdɑ.səl/ adjective

  1. adjective Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
  2. adjective Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management. “Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.”

Synonyms

amenable compliant teachable bowsome buxom hearsome morigerous obedible obedient obsequent obsequious tall toward malleable meek submissive tractable manageable biddable complaisant gentle

Antonyms

perverse defiant rebellious wilful authoritarian bossy dictatorial dominant domineering imperious overbearing obstinate stubborn

Etymology

From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”).
Compare Portuguese dócil ("docile").

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Teachable; easy to teach; docible. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.

Etymology [L. docilis,fr. docere to teach; cf. Gr. discere to learn, Gr. docile. Cf. Doctor, Didactic, Disciple.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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