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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senseless

/ˈsɛnsləs/ adjective

Forms senselesse

  1. adjective Without feeling or desire to work; deprived of sensation. “The blow to his head rendered him senseless; he didn’t awaken until he was in the ambulance.”
  2. adjective Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense. “What a senseless waste of money.”
  3. adjective Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act. “The school shooting was a senseless act of violence.”
  4. adjective Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement “He took senseless risks, not even aware of the danger he was in.”

Synonyms

unconscious insensible pointless meaningless unreasonable unwise stupid mindless reasonless otiose purposeless superfluous wasted nitwitted soft-witted witless

Etymology

From sense + -less. Compare Saterland Frisian sinloos (“senseless, foolish”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.

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

Sanskrit

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

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