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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mostly

UK /ˈməʊstli/ · US /ˈmoʊstli/ adverb

Forms mostlie moastly

  1. adverb Mainly or chiefly; for the most part; usually, generally, on the whole. “They're mostly good people, although they have made a few mistakes.”
  2. adverb (obsolete) To the greatest extent; most.
  3. adverb (India, proscribed) Synonym of probably, likely.

Synonyms

probably likely by and large in the main more often than not largely predominantly principally all in all all things considered altogether broadly as a rule basically chiefly feckly for the most part generally in the large mainly

Antonyms

almost slightly

Etymology

The sense “probably” is a calque from Indian languages such as Tamil அனேகமாக (aṉēkamāka).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.

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

Sanskrit

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

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