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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loosely

/ˈluːsli/ adverb

  1. adverb In a loose manner.
  2. adverb Not tightly. “Insert all the bolts loosely, then tighten them.”
  3. adverb Approximately. “It's red, to use the term loosely, sort of brown and sort of orange, let's call it reddish.”
  4. adverb Used to indicate an imprecise use of words; short for loosely speaking “A whale is, loosely, maybe very loosely, a fish.”

Synonyms

-ish about all but almost approaching around by and large circa close close to essentially for all practical purposes fornigh give or take imprecisely just about kind of more or less nearly near slackly broadly broadly speaking generally

Antonyms

tightly

Etymology

From Middle English lously; equivalent to loose + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In a loose manner.

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

Sanskrit

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