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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suspicious

/səˈspɪʃ.əs/ adjective

  1. adjective Arousing suspicion. “His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.”
  2. adjective Distrustful or tending to suspect. “We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.”
  3. adjective Expressing suspicion “She gave me a suspicious look.”

Synonyms

questionable queer doubtful leery mistrustful untrusting wary fishy funny shady suspect

Antonyms

unsuspecting

Etymology

From Old French sospecious, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
  2. adjective Indicating suspicion, mistrust, or fear.

Etymology [OE. suspecious; cf. L. suspiciosus. See Suspicion.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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