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

neglect

/nɪˈɡlɛkt/ verb, noun

Forms neglects neglecting neglected

  1. verb (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something. “to neglect duty or business;  to neglect to pay debts”
  2. verb (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight. “to neglect strangers”
  3. verb (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
  4. verb (transitive, mathematics) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy. “We can neglect this term, as it approaches zero in the limit anyway.”
  5. noun The act of neglecting.
  6. noun The state of being neglected.
  7. noun Habitual lack of care.

Synonyms

let slide disregard fail forget take no notice of carelessness negligence disuse neglectfulness nonperformance pretermit omit drop miss leave out overlook overleap ignore

Antonyms

care mind reck consider notice regard consideration attend to

Etymology

The verb is inherited from Middle English neglect, neclect, derived from Latin neglēctus, perfect passive participle of neglegō (“to make light of, disregard, not to pick up”), itself from nec (“not”) + legō (“to pick up, select”). The noun is from neglēctus (“neglect”). First attested in 1460, the noun in 1588.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
  2. verb To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.
  3. noun Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.
  4. noun Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.

Etymology [L. neglectus, p.p. of neglegere (negligere) to disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, gather. See No, adv., Legend, Who.]

Etymology [L. neglectus. See Neglect, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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