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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rotten

UK /ˈɹɒtn̩/ · US /ˈɹɑtn̩/ adjective, adverb

Forms rottener rottenest

  1. adjective Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents. “If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.”
  2. adjective In a state of decay. “The floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.”
  3. adjective Cruel, mean or immoral. “That man is a rotten father.”
  4. adjective Bad or terrible. “Why is the weather always rotten in this city?”
  5. adjective Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
  6. adjective (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang) Very drunk, intoxicated.
  7. adverb To an extreme degree. “That kid is spoilt rotten.”

Synonyms

gone bad maggoted spoiled blighted forworn putrid cankered decayed dotterel moldering putrefacient putrefactive putrescent fell malicious ruthless barbarous bowelless brutal compassionless icky crappy lousy shitty stinking stinky rotted

Antonyms

edible fresh unspoiled

Etymology

From Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn (“decayed, rotten”), past participle of an unrecorded verb related to Old Norse rotna (“to rot”) and Old English rotian (“to rot”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”). See rot. By surface analysis, rot + -en (past participle).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: (a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.

Etymology [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See Rot.]

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

Sanskrit

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