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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pointed

/ˈpɔɪnɪd/ adjective

Also a form of point

  1. adjective (comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull. “The warrior brandished a pointed spear.”
  2. adjective (in combination) Having a certain number of points. “a five-pointed star”
  3. adjective (comparable) Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
  4. adjective (not comparable) In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities. “The Siamese is a pointed breed of cat.”
  5. adjective (comparable, of a comment or inference) Directed negatively at a person or topic. “a pointed remark”
  6. adjective (topology, algebraic topology, of a topological space) That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations. “The class of all pointed spaces forms a category - Top_• - with basepoint preserving continuous maps as morphisms.”
  7. adjective (dated, of a time) precise, on the dot.

Synonyms

pointy sharp

Antonyms

blunt pointless

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
  2. adjective Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing.

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

Sanskrit

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

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