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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massive

/ˈmæs.ɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms massives

  1. adjective (general) Very large in size or extent. “Compared to its counterparts from World War II, the Abrams main battle tank is truly massive.”
  2. adjective Substantial in mass; bulky, heavy and solid. “A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.”
  3. adjective (informal) To a very great extent; total, utter.
  4. adjective (colloquial) Of particularly exceptional quality or value; awesome. “Did you see Colbert last night? He was massive!”
  5. adjective (colloquial, informal, Ireland) Outstanding, beautiful. “Your dress is massive, love. Where did you get it?”
  6. adjective (medicine) Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe. “a massive heart attack”
  7. adjective (physics, of a particle) Having any mass. “Some bosons are massive while others are massless.”
  8. adjective (geology) Homogeneous, unstructured.
  9. noun (mineralogy) A homogeneous mass of rock, not layered and without an obvious crystal structure.
  10. noun (MLE, slang) A group of people from a locality, or sharing a collective aim, interest, etc. “Big up to the Croydon massive!”

Synonyms

colossal enormous gargantuan giant gigantic great huge mahoosive titanic awesome super excellent stupendous bulky heavy hefty substantial weighty consequential meaningful monolithic monumental

Antonyms

insubstantial light dwarf little microscopic midget minuscule pint-sized tiny wee inconsequential insignificant

Etymology

From Middle English massif, from Middle French massif, equivalent to mass + -ive. The Irish sense is possibly derived from Irish mas (“fine, handsome”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy. "Massive armor." Dr. H. More.
  2. adjective In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive. Massive rock (Geol.), a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock.

Etymology [F. massif.]

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

Sanskrit

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