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

“outgoings” is a form of

outgoing

/aʊtˈɡəʊɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of outgo

Forms outgoings

  1. adjective Extroverted: talkative, friendly, and social, especially with respect to meeting new people easily and comfortably; outgiving. “Tom is very outgoing and enjoys meeting people; his brother, on the other hand, is painfully shy.”
  2. adjective (not comparable) Going out, on its way out. “Is there any outgoing post?”
  3. adjective (not comparable) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that he/she will be replaced). “The outgoing politician wasn't too disappointed he'd lost the election; he was tired of political infighting.”
  4. noun The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.
  5. noun (chiefly in the plural) Money that leaves one's possession; expenditure, outlay, expense.
  6. noun The extreme limit; the place of ending.

Synonyms

outgang extroverted forthcoming

Antonyms

introverted asocial reserved shy bashful withdrawn quiet mousy incoming

Etymology

From outgo + -ing, out + going.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or the state of going out. The outgoings of the morning and evening. Ps. lxv. 8.
  2. noun That which goes out; outgo; outlay.
  3. adjective Going out; departing; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer.

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