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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ugly

/ˈʌɡli/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms uglier ugliest uglies uglying uglied ougly

  1. adjective Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
  2. adjective Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
  3. adjective Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality. “He played an ugly trick on us.”
  4. adjective (Southern US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome. “an ugly temper; to feel ugly”
  5. adjective (figuratively, derogatory) Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss. “an ugly customer, wound or rumor”
  6. noun (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
  7. noun (slang) An ugly person or thing.
  8. noun (logistics, informal) Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
  9. noun (UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
  10. verb (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).

Synonyms

hideous homely repulsive unattractive uncomely unsightly displeasing corrupt immoral vile bad beat butters butt-ugly clapped coyote ugly deform fuckfaced fugly like the back end of a bus surly despicable slimy unworthy worthless wretched atrocious frightful horrifying horrible

Antonyms

attractive beautiful gorgeous handsome pretty sightly pleasing moral comely good-looking nice

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ugly, uggely, uglike, borrowed from Old Norse uggligr (“fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance”), from uggr (“fear, apprehension, dread”) (possibly related to agg (“strife, hate”)), equivalent to ug + -ly. Cognate with Scots ugly, uglie, Icelandic ugglegur. Meaning softened to "very unpleasant to look at" around the late 14th century, and sense of "morally offensive" attested from around 1300.
For the meaning development compare Bulgarian грозен (grozen) (< Proto-Slavic *grozьnъ), Russian стра́шный (strášnyj) (< Proto-Slavic *strašьnъ < *straxъ); Latin foedus (< Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂-).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
  2. adjective Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.]
  3. noun A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq.
  4. verb To make ugly. [R.] Richardson.

Etymology [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). Awe.]

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

Sanskrit

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