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

inevitable

/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms inevitables

  1. adjective Impossible to avoid or prevent. “We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.”
  2. adjective Predictable or always happening. “My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.”
  3. noun Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.
  4. proper noun The fifty-sixth sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Synonyms

inescapable natural necessary certain unavoidable impreventable avoidless fatal foregone ineluctable inexorable irresistible predictable unforestallable unescapable unpreventable

Antonyms

evitable escapable avoidable preventable impossible incidental

Etymology

From Middle French inevitable, from Latin inēvītābilis (“unavoidable”), from in- + ēvītābilis (“avoidable”), from ēvītāre (“to avoid”), from ē- (“out”) + vītāre (“to shun”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain.
  2. adjective Irresistible. "Inevitable charms." Dryden.

Etymology [L. inevitabilis: cf. F. inévitable. See In- not, and Evitable.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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