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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shallow

UK /ˈʃæləʊ/ · US /ˈʃæloʊ/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms shallower shallowest shallows shallowing shallowed

  1. adjective Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide. “This crater is relatively shallow.”
  2. adjective Extending not far downward. “The water is shallow here.”
  3. adjective Concerned mainly with superficial matters. “It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.”
  4. adjective Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional. “The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.”
  5. adjective Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing. “shallow learning”
  6. adjective (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
  7. adjective (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
  8. adjective (of an angle) Not steep; close to horizontal. “a shallow climb”
  9. noun A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water. “The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.”
  10. noun A fish, the rudd.
  11. noun (historical) A costermonger's barrow.
  12. noun (cooking, slang) A shallow hotel pan.
  13. verb (ambitransitive) To make or become less deep.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

skin-deep superficial shoal

Antonyms

deep

Etymology

From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton.
  2. adjective Not deep in tone. [R.]
  3. noun A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
  4. noun The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]

Etymology [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve to slope, Shoal shallow.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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