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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passive

/ˈpæs.ɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms passives

  1. adjective Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
  2. adjective Taking no action. “He remained passive during the protest.”
  3. adjective (grammar) Being in the passive voice.
  4. adjective (psychology) Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
  5. adjective (finance) Not participating in management.
  6. adjective (aviation) Without motive power. “a passive balloon”
  7. adjective (electronics) Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
  8. adjective (in "passive provision") Where allowance is made for a possible future event.
  9. noun (grammar) The passive voice of verbs.
  10. noun (grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.
  11. noun (marketing) A customer who is satisfied with a product or service, but not keen enough to promote it by word of mouth.
  12. noun (electronics) Any component that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
  13. noun A thing whose worth decreases with time.

Synonyms

idle inactive abeyant at rest cessant dormant dull fallow hibernating inert languid latent nonactive quiescent silent sedent sedentary slow standing by suspended passive voice peaceful

Antonyms

active abuzz agile airy alive animate animated brisk busy busy as a bee buxom buzzing

Etymology

From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
  2. adjective Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.

Etymology [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See Passion.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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