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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satisfactory

/sætɪsˈfækt(ə)ɹi/ adjective, noun

Forms satisfactories

  1. adjective Done to satisfaction; adequate or sufficient. “The satisfactory results of the survey led to his promotion.”
  2. adjective Causing satisfaction; agreeable or pleasant; satisfying.
  3. adjective (theology) Making atonement for a sin; expiatory.
  4. noun Somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them.
  5. noun The rating given to somebody or something that meets requirements without exceeding them.

Synonyms

acceptable adequate all right average close enough close enough for government work close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades decent favoursome fair fine jake good enough good enough for government work hunky dory kosher mustn't grumble nonbad not bad not half bad

Antonyms

awesome excellent wonderful good mediocre bad disappointing inadequate insufficient poor unsatisfactory unsufficient

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French satisfactoire, from Late Latin satisfactōrius, from Latin satisfactus, past participle of satisfaciō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.
  2. adjective Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.

Etymology [Cf. F. satisfactoire.]

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

Sanskrit

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