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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“scarier” is a form of

scary

/ˈskɛə.ɹi/ adjective, adverb, noun

Forms scarier scariest scarey

  1. adjective (now chiefly informal) Causing fear or anxiety “The tiger's jaws were scary.”
  2. adjective (informal) Uncannily striking or surprising. “Linda changed her hair, and it’s scary how much she looks like her mother.”
  3. adjective (US, colloquial) Subject to sudden alarm; easily frightened.
  4. adverb (informal) To a scary extent; scarily.
  5. noun Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

Synonyms

frightening hair-raising petrifying terrifying affreux alarming spine-tingling appalling awful eldritch buggish butt-clenching buttock-clenching dismayful dreadful fearful flaysome flesh-crawling formidable freaky chilling scarey shivery shuddery

Etymology

From scare + -y.

From dialectal English scare (“scraggy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. adjective Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq.U.S.] Whittier.
  3. adjective Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq.U.S.]

Etymology [Prov. E. scare scraggy.]

Etymology [From Scare.]

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