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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unfair

UK /ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/ · US /ʌnˈfɛɚ/ adjective, verb

Forms unfairer unfairest unfairs unfairing unfaired

  1. adjective Not just. “It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.”
  2. adjective (rare or archaic) Not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive.
  3. adjective (archaic or obsolete) Sorrowful; sad.
  4. adjective (archaic) Unseemly; disgraceful.
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) to make ugly

Synonyms

no fair unjust inequitable unequitable

Antonyms

fair just equitable beautiful comely pretty

Etymology

From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To deprive of fairness or beauty. [R.] Shak.
  2. adjective Not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal.

Etymology [1st pref. un- + fair.]

Etymology [AS. unfæger unlovely. See Un- not, and Fair, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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