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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“essentials” is a form of

essential

/ɪˈsɛn.ʃəl/ adjective, noun

Forms essentials essentiall

  1. adjective Necessary.
  2. adjective Very important; of high importance. “I see it as essential that there should be somewhere to park.”
  3. adjective (biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
  4. adjective Being in the basic form; showing its essence. “Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.”
  5. adjective Really existing; existent.
  6. adjective (geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
  7. adjective (medicine) Idiopathic. “essential blepharospasm”
  8. adjective Having the nature of essence; not physical.
  9. noun A necessary ingredient.
  10. noun A fundamental ingredient.

Synonyms

indispensable basic necessar necessary necessitous needed prerequisite required requisite crucial big central consequential critical epochful extraordinary fateful fatefraught fatesome heavy necessity requirement all-important all important of the essence substantive

Antonyms

accidental accessorial incidental unnecessary unneeded unimportant base contemptible floccinaucinihilipilificatious foolish for the birds futile inessential

Etymology

From Late Latin essentiālis, from Latin essentia (“being, essence”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.
  2. adjective Hence, really existing; existent.
  3. noun Existence; being. [Obs.] Milton.
  4. noun That which is essential; first or constituent principle; as, the essentials or religion.

Etymology [Cf. F. essentiel. See Essence.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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