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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fool

UK /fuːl/ · US /ful/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms fools fooling fooled fooler foolest

  1. noun (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence. “You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.”
  2. noun (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  3. noun (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
  4. noun Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
  5. noun (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
  6. noun (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
  7. noun (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
  8. verb (transitive) To trick; to deceive.
  9. verb (intransitive) To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
  10. verb (archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
  11. adjective (informal) Foolish.
  12. noun (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

ignoramus naif simpleton simp goofus doofus dimwit idiot imbecile stultus buffoon cuckoo moron lunatic maniac jester joker dupe mark goat sap saphead muggins tomfool chump gull patsy fall guy sucker soft touch

Antonyms

sage

Etymology

From Middle English fol (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs.

From French fouler (“to trample”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; --commonly called gooseberry fool.
  2. noun One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
  3. noun A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
  4. verb To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

Etymology [Cf. F. fouler to tread, crush. Cf. 1st Foil.]

Etymology [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E. bellows. Cf. Folly, Follicle.]

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

Sanskrit

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