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

mental

/ˈmɛn.təl/ adjective, noun

Forms mentals

  1. adjective Occurring or experienced in the mind.
  2. adjective Relating to the mind, its activity, or its products as an object of study. “mental science”
  3. adjective Of or relating to intellectual as contrasted with emotional activity. “mental acuity”
  4. adjective Of, relating to, or being intellectual as contrasted with overt physical activity.
  5. adjective Relating to spirit or idea as opposed to matter. “the distinction between physical things and mental ideas”
  6. adjective Of, relating to, or affected by a psychiatric disorder. “a mental patient”
  7. adjective (relational) Intended for the care or treatment of persons affected by psychiatric disorders. “mental hospitals”
  8. adjective (colloquial, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, dated in the US, Canada, comparable) Mentally disordered; insane, mad, crazy. “He is the most mental freshman I've seen yet.”
  9. noun (slang) State of mind; ellipsis of mental state.
  10. noun (India, offensive) A mentally challenged person.
  11. adjective (anatomy, relational) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial. “the mental nerve, the mental region”
  12. adjective (biology, relational) Of or relating to the chinlike or liplike structure.
  13. noun (zootomy) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

Synonyms

inner psychological ideological genial genian

Antonyms

physical

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle French mental, from Late Latin mentālis, from mēns (“mind, disposition; heart, soul”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

c. 1727, from Latin mentum (“the chin”) + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.
  2. noun A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise.

Etymology [L. mentum the chin.]

Etymology [F., fr. L. mentalis, fr. mens, mentis, the mind; akin to E. mind. See Mind.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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