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

ripe

/ɹaɪp/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms riper ripest ripes riping riped rype

  1. adjective Of a fruit, vegetable, seed, etc., ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature. “ripe grain”
  2. adjective Of a food, advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow. “ripe cheese”
  3. adjective (figuratively) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected.
  4. adjective (archaic) Of a sore, tumor, etc., maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge.
  5. adjective Ready for action or effect; prepared.
  6. adjective (colloquial) Of a person, ready, willing, eager.
  7. adjective Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
  8. adjective (obsolete) Intoxicated.
  9. noun (agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
  10. verb (intransitive) To ripen or mature.
  11. noun The bank of a river.
  12. verb (transitive, obsolete) To search; to rummage.
  13. adjective (proscribed, used with with) Rife
  14. noun A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E).
  15. proper noun A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).

Synonyms

consummate Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted mature good right advanced

Antonyms

unripe green

Etymology

From Middle English ripe, rype, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpī, from Proto-Germanic *rīpijaz, *rīpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”). Cognate with West Frisian ryp (“ripe”), Dutch rijp (“ripe”), German reif (“ripe”). Related to reap.

From Middle English ripe, from Latin ripa.

An alteration of rife.

Recorded as Ripe in 1086 (DB), from Old English rip, "edge or strip of land".

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The bank of a river. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; --said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
  3. adjective Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
  4. verb To ripen; to grow ripe. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. ripa.]

Etymology [AS. ripe; akin to OS. ripi, D. rijp, G. rief, OHG. rift; cf. AS. rip harvest, ripan to reap. Cf. Reap.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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