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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naughty

/ˈnɔːti/ adjective

Forms naughtier naughtiest noughty

  1. adjective Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child). “Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.”
  2. adjective Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky. “I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.”
  3. adjective (informal, of a treat) Decadent, had as indulgence, especially an unhealthy one.
  4. adjective (now rare, archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard.

Synonyms

impish misbehaved impudent sassy audacious bold get wise bold-faced bold as brass brassy malapert brazen brazen-faced cheeky chutzpadik cocket cute dicacious facey familiar blue gamy gamey juicy racy risque spicy

Antonyms

innocent nice

Etymology

From late Middle English noughti, naughty (“evil, immoral, wicked”), from nought (“evil, immoral”) + -ī̆ (suffix forming adjectives). Analysable as naught + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having little or nothing. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.]

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

Sanskrit

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