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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unlike

/ʌnˈlaɪk/ adjective, preposition, noun, verb

Forms unlikes unliking unliked

  1. adjective Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance; unalike. “The brothers are quite unlike each other.”
  2. adjective Unequal. “They contributed in unlike amounts.”
  3. adjective (archaic) Not likely; improbable; unlikely.
  4. preposition Different from; not in a like or similar manner. “The disgust I felt after watching last weekend's horror movie was unlike anything I had felt before.”
  5. preposition In contrast with; as opposed to. “Claudia hardly ever drinks beer or wine, unlike Phillip, for whom the bar is practically a second home.”
  6. preposition Not typical of one's character or personality. “Being late is unlike him.”
  7. noun Something that is not like something else; something different.
  8. verb To dislike.
  9. verb (social media) To cancel a "like" action. “I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist.”
  10. verb (by extension) To withdraw support or enjoyment for.
  11. noun (Internet) The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.

Synonyms

dissimilar different

Antonyms

like

Etymology

From Middle English unlic, unlich, from Old English unlīċ, unġelīċ (“unlike, different, dissimilar, diverse”), from Proto-Germanic *ungalīkaz. By surface analysis, un- + like. Cognate with Dutch ongelijk, German ungleich, Old Norse úlíkr (see there for North Germanic descendants).

From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not like; dissimilar; diverse; having no resemblance; as, the cases are unlike.
  2. adjective Not likely; improbable; unlikely. [Obsoles.] Unlike quantities (Math.), quantities expressed by letters which are different or of different powers, as a, b, c, a2, a3, xn, and the like.

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

Sanskrit

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

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