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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lavish

/ˈlævɪʃ/ adjective, verb, noun

Forms lavisher lavishest lavishes lavishing lavished lavis laves lavas

  1. adjective Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal. “lavish of money; lavish of praise”
  2. adjective Superabundant; excessive. “lavish spirits”
  3. adjective (obsolete) Unrestrained, impetuous.
  4. adjective (chiefly dialectal) Rank or lush with vegetation.
  5. verb (transitive) To give out extremely generously; to squander. “They lavished money on the dinner.”
  6. verb (transitive) To give out to (somebody) extremely generously. “They lavished him with praise.”
  7. noun (obsolete) Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.

Synonyms

profuse wasteful extravagant exuberant immoderate opulent expansive improvident imprudent loose-handed prodigal profligate reckless spendthrift squandering uneconomical unthrifty unrestrained devilish excessive shower munificent overgenerous too-generous unsparing unstinted unstinting lucullan lush plush

Etymology

From Middle English laves, lavas, lavage (“extravagant, wasteful, prodigal”), from lavas (“excessive abundance”), from Old French lavasse, lavache (“torrent of rain”); possibly later conflated in some senses by Middle English laven (“to pour out”), equivalent to lave + -ish. Compare Scots lawage, lavisch, lavish (“unrestrained, excessively prodigal, extravagant”). Compare also English lavy (“lavish, liberal”), Dutch lafenis (“lavishness”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
  2. adjective Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
  3. verb To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.

Etymology [Akin to E. lave to lade out; cf. AS. gelafian to refresh, G. laben.]

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

Sanskrit

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