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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strict

/stɹɪkt/ adjective

Forms stricter strictest

  1. adjective Strained; drawn close; tight. “strict embrace”
  2. adjective Tense; not relaxed. “strict fiber”
  3. adjective Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular. “to keep strict watch”
  4. adjective Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous. “they are very strict in observing the Sabbath”
  5. adjective Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted. “to understand words in a strict sense”
  6. adjective (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
  7. adjective Severe in discipline. “Our teacher was always very strict. If we didn't behave, we would get punished.”
  8. adjective (set theory, order theory) Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.

Synonyms

taut tensioned nonslack strained stretched tense tight correct dead on thorough accurate careful surgical comprehensive solicitous conscientious exhaustive fastidious groundly in-depth rigorous hard-and-fast nonindulgent rigid stern exacting

Antonyms

lenient lax permissive

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere (“to draw tight, bind, contract”). Doublet of strait and stretto. See stringent, strain. Related to strong.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature. Dryden.
  2. adjective Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.

Etymology [L. strictus, p.p. of stringere to draw or bind tight, to strain. See Strain, and cf. Strait, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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