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

handsome

/ˈhæn.səm/ adjective, verb

Forms handsomer handsomest handsomes handsoming handsomed

  1. adjective Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly: “That is one handsome tree you've got there.”
  2. adjective Of a man or boy: attractively manly, having a pleasing face and overall effect. “I was struck dumb. Here was the most handsome man I’d ever seen in my life coming out of the surf.”
  3. adjective Of a woman: statuesque, beautiful in a masculine or otherwise imposing way. “She was either handsome or her uniform created a flattering effect but—being very nearsighted—he couldn't tell from this distance.”
  4. adjective Good, appealing, appropriate.
  5. adjective (figuratively) Of weather, fine, clear and bright.
  6. adjective Suitable or fit in action; marked with propriety and ease; appropriate. “a handsome style”
  7. adjective Generous or noble in character.
  8. adjective Ample; moderately large. “a handsome salary”
  9. verb (transitive, obsolete) To render handsome.

Synonyms

hefty substantial fine-looking good-looking better-looking well-favored well-favoured big bighearted bounteous bountiful freehanded giving liberal openhanded

Etymology

From Middle English handsum, hondsom, equivalent to hand + -some. Compare Dutch handzaam, German Low German handsaam. The original sense was “easy to handle or use”, hence “suitable” and “apt, clever” (mid-16th century), giving rise to the current appreciatory senses (late 16th century).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; --applied to things as persons. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; --expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.
  3. verb To render handsome. [Obs.] Donne

Etymology [Hand + -some. It at first meant, dexterous; cf. D. handzaam dexterous, ready, limber, manageable, and E. handy.]

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

Sanskrit

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