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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

valuable

/ˈvælju(ə)bl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms valuables

  1. adjective Having a great value. “valuable gemstones”
  2. adjective Estimable; deserving esteem. “a valuable friend; a valuable companion”
  3. noun (usually in the plural) A personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value. “One particular valuable is a gemstone mosaic.”

Synonyms

worthy admirable laudable allowable commendable creditable estimable glorious honorable praiseworthy respectable reverable reverend venerable worthly prizable treasurous worth every penny worthful

Antonyms

worthless bastardly blown cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish draffy dreckish

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.
  2. adjective Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion. Valuable consideration (Law), an equivalent or compensation having value given for a thing purchased, as money, marriage, services, etc. Blackstone. Bouvier.
  3. noun A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; --used mostly in the plural.

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

Sanskrit

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

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