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

intellectual

/ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/ adjective, noun

Forms intellectuals intellectuall

  1. adjective Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive. “intellectual powers, activities, etc.”
  2. adjective Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness “an intellectual person”
  3. adjective Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect “intellectual employments”
  4. adjective Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind. “intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy”
  5. adjective (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
  6. noun An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
  7. noun (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

Synonyms

cerebral logical mental rational highbrow academic scholar intellect noetic

Antonyms

nonintellectual visceral

Etymology

From Old French intellectuel, from Latin intellectualis.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts.
  2. adjective Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
  3. noun The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

Etymology [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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