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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lively

/ˈlaɪv.li/ adjective, noun, adverb, proper noun

Forms livelier liveliest livelies lifely

  1. adjective Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
  2. adjective Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
  3. adjective (archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
  4. adjective (archaic) Representing life; lifelike.
  5. adjective (archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.
  6. adjective (of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
  7. noun (nautical, informal) Term of address.
  8. adverb Vigorously.
  9. adverb Vibrantly, vividly.
  10. adverb (obsolete) In a lifelike manner.
  11. proper noun A characteristical surname.
  12. proper noun An urban area of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Virginia.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.

Synonyms

high-spirited intense smart extant lifey limned naturalistic frothy spumescent frisky peppy zestful live vital sprightly racy alert brisk merry rattling snappy spanking zippy bouncy resilient springy full of life

Antonyms

dull

Etymology

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ (“living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital”), from Proto-West Germanic *lībalīk (“living, lively”), equivalent to life + -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely (“of or pertaining to life, vital, living, life-like”), Old High German līblīh (“living, animated”), German leiblich (“bodily, corporeal”). Doublet of lifely and lifelike.

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċe, equivalent to life + -ly.

From lively.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
  2. adjective Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth.
  3. adverb In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.
  4. adverb With strong resemblance of life. [Obs.]

Etymology [For lifely. Cf. Lifelike.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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