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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superior

UK /suːˈpɪə.ɹi.ə/ · US /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms superiors superiour

  1. adjective Higher in rank, status, or quality. “Rebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch.”
  2. adjective Of high standard or quality.
  3. adjective Greater in size or power.
  4. adjective (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
  5. adjective Greater or better than average.
  6. adjective Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
  7. adjective (typography) Printed in superscript. “a superior figure or letter”
  8. adjective Located above or out; higher in position. “the superior jaw; the superior part of an image”
  9. noun The senior person in a monastic community.
  10. noun The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
  11. noun (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
  12. noun (Scots law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
  13. proper noun A town in Pinal County, Arizona.
  14. proper noun A statutory town in Boulder County, Colorado.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Raccoon Township, Parke County, Indiana.
  16. proper noun A minor city in Dickinson County, Iowa.
  17. proper noun A township in Chippewa County, Michigan.
  18. proper noun A township and unincorporated community therein, in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
  19. proper noun A town, the county seat of Mineral County, Montana.
  20. proper noun A small city in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.

Synonyms

extraordinary posterior ascending supercilious crowning ferior foremost greater higher major paramount preeminent supreme utmost vaulting overling superscript Superia higher-up superordinate victor master Lake Superior ranking higher-ranking

Antonyms

inferior equivalent

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upper”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.
  2. adjective Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.
  3. noun One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English.
  4. noun The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.

Etymology [L., compar. of superus being above, fr. super above, over: cf. F. supérieur. See Super-, and cf. Supreme.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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