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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progressive

/pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/ adjective, noun

Forms progressives prog. prog

  1. adjective Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
  2. adjective Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
  3. adjective Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods. “a progressive politician”
  4. adjective (politics) Liberal.
  5. adjective (education) Of or relating to progressive education. “a progressive school”
  6. adjective (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
  7. adjective Advancing in severity. “progressive paralysis”
  8. adjective (grammar) Continuous.
  9. noun One with liberal or progressive political beliefs. “The progressives want to legalise gay marriage.”
  10. noun A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
  11. noun (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
  12. adjective Belonging to or supporting a Progressive Party.
  13. adjective Of or pertaining to such a party, its policies, or its membership.
  14. noun A member or supporter of a Progressive Party.

Synonyms

progressive tense imperfect imperfect tense continuous tense liberal liberalist reformist reform-minded

Antonyms

regressive non-progressive conservative reactionary

Etymology

From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe. By surface analysis, progress + -ive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; --opposed to retrograde.
  2. adjective Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table.

Etymology [Cf. F. progressif.]

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

Sanskrit

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