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

kindly

/ˈkaɪn(d)li/ adjective, adverb

Forms kindlier kindliest

  1. adjective Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic. “A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.”
  2. adjective (dated) Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
  3. adjective (archaic) Lawful.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Natural; inherent to the kind or race.
  5. adverb In a kind manner, out of kindness. “He kindly offered to take us to the station in his car.”
  6. adverb In a favourable way.
  7. adverb Used to make a polite request: please. “Kindly refrain from walking on the grass.”
  8. adverb (US) With kind acceptance; used with take. “I don't take kindly to threats.”
  9. adverb (dialectal) Kind of, somewhat.
  10. adverb (archaic) Readily.
  11. adverb (obsolete) Naturally.

Synonyms

openhearted compassionate benignant good-hearted kind kindhearted humane softhearted sympathetic tender tenderhearted warmhearted attentive considerate thoughtful affable benign cordial dear friendly charitable benevolent large-hearted

Antonyms

mean stern hateful malevolent malicious spiteful virulent barbarous bestial brutal brutish cold-blooded unkindly

Etymology

From Middle English kyndely, kyndeliche, from Old English cyndelīċ (“natural, kindly”); equivalent to kind + -ly.

From Middle English kyndely, kyndly, kyndeliche, from Old English ġecyndelīċe, equivalent to kind + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective According to the kind or nature; natural. [R.]
  2. adjective Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc. The shade by which my life was crossed, . . . Has made me kindly with my kind. Tennyson.
  3. adverb Naturally; fitly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  4. adverb In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.

Etymology [AS. cyndelic. See Kind, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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