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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positive

/ˈpɑzɪtɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms positives +ve

  1. adjective Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
  2. adjective (law) Formally laid down.
  3. adjective Stated definitively and without qualification.
  4. adjective Fully assured in opinion. “I’m absolutely positive you've spelt that wrong.”
  5. adjective (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
  6. adjective (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
  7. adjective Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
  8. adjective Overconfident, dogmatic.
  9. noun A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
  10. noun A favourable point or characteristic. “Not a bad situation when we weigh all the positives.”
  11. noun Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
  12. noun (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
  13. noun (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
  14. noun (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
  15. noun The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
  16. noun A positive result of a test.

Synonyms

certain sure wis nonnegative absolute good acceptable agreeable all right amazing as fine as Dick's hatband awesome beatific bene blissful bodacious bona brilliant celestial commendable positive degree convinced confident plus confirming prescribed incontrovertible irrefutable positivist positivistic

Antonyms

uncertain unsure negative nonpositive bad abysmal atrocious awful chronic coarse corny crap neutral

Etymology

From Old French positif, from Latin positivus, from the past participle stem of ponere (“to place”). Compare posit.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; --opposed to negative. "Positive good." Bacon.
  2. adjective Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute; --opposed to relative; as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes individuals.
  3. noun That which is capable of being affirmed; reality. South.
  4. noun That which settles by absolute appointment.

Etymology [OE. positif, F. positif, L. positivus. See Position.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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