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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indifferent

/ɪnˈdɪf.ɹənt/ adjective, noun, adverb

Forms indifferents

  1. adjective Ambivalent; unconcerned; uninterested, apathetic. “He was indifferent to the proposal, since it didn’t affect him, either way.”
  2. adjective Indicating or reflecting a lack of concern or care. “She responded with an indifferent shrug.”
  3. adjective Mediocre (usually used negatively in modern usage). “The long distance and the indifferent roads made the journey impossible.”
  4. adjective Having no preference. “I am indifferent between the two plans.”
  5. adjective (dated) Unbiased, impartial, judging fairly.
  6. adjective Not making a difference; without significance or importance. “Even if one appliance consumes an indifferent amount of energy when left on stand-by overnight, together they can represent 10% of the electricity demand of a household.”
  7. adjective (mechanics) Being in the state of neutral equilibrium.
  8. adjective (obsolete) Not different; matching.
  9. noun A person who is indifferent or apathetic.
  10. adverb (obsolete) To some extent, in some degree (intermediate between very and not at all); moderately, tolerably, fairly. “The face of the Moon appearing to me to be full of indifferent high mountains.”
  11. adverb (obsolete) Without distinction or preference for some over others.

Synonyms

insouciant nonchalant adiaphroistic apathetic apathistical blasé blithe deaf cool shiftless dispassionate dull enervated gallionic halfhearted heartless impassive ineffervescible insensible jaded immaterial inert neutral unbiased unbiassed so-so

Etymology

From Old French indifferent, from Latin indifferens. By surface analysis, in- + different.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not mal Dangers are to me indifferent. Shak.
  2. adjective Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre.
  3. adverb To a moderate degree; passably; tolerably. [Obs.] "News indifferent good." Shak.

Etymology [F. indifférent, L. indifferens. See In- not, and Different.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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