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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unlikely

/ʌnˈlaɪkli/ adjective, adverb, noun

Forms unlikelier unlikeliest unlikelies

  1. adjective Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected. “It is pretty unlikely that you'll win, but I will pray that at least you do well.”
  2. adjective Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising. “unlikely means”
  3. adverb In an improbable manner.
  4. noun Something or somebody considered unlikely.

Synonyms

improbable unbelievable unconvincing

Antonyms

likely

Etymology

From Middle English unlykely, unlikly, unlykly, unlicli. By surface analysis, un- + likely.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely.
  2. adjective Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means. Hooker.
  3. adverb In an unlikely manner.

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

Sanskrit

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