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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tired

UK [ˈtaɪ̯əd] · US [ˈtaɪ̯ɚd] adjective

Also a form of tire

Forms tireder tiredest

  1. adjective In need of some rest or sleep.
  2. adjective Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of. “I'm tired of this”
  3. adjective Overused, cliché. “a tired song”
  4. adjective Old and worn. “a tired-looking hotel room”
  5. adjective (slang, African-American Vernacular, derogatory) Played out, ineffectual; incompetent.

Synonyms

jaded exhausted fatigued languid bleareyed bleary bleary-eyed bone-tired bushed tired out spent wrecked drained dog-tired dog-weary forfairn forlagen forworn heavyeyed enervated banal commonplace hackneyed old-hat shopworn stock threadbare timeworn trite well-worn

Antonyms

rested

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

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

Sanskrit

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

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