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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unfathomable

UK /(ˌ)ʌnˈfæðəməbl̩/ · US /ˌʌnˈfæð(ə)məb(ə)l/ adjective

  1. adjective Especially of depth: physically incapable of being measured; immeasurable.
  2. adjective (figurative) Impossible to grasp the extent of, or to fully know or understand. “The sheer number of warriors the enemy attacked with was unfathomable.”

Synonyms

abyssal incalculable inestimable soundless unplumbable unsoundable bottomless fathomless impenetrable unintelligible abstruse Chinese dense enigmatic Greek inapprehensible incognizable incomprehensible ineffable inenubilable abysmal

Antonyms

calculable estimable fathomable measurable plumbable soundable explicable intelligible penetrable understandable apprehensible clear

Etymology

From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + fathom (“to measure the depth of (water); (figurative) to deeply understand (someone or something)”) + -able (suffix forming adjectives denoting things not able or fit to be done).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “unfathomable”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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