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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weakness

UK /ˈwiːk.nɪs/ · US /ˈwik.nɪs/ noun

Forms weaknesses weakenes

  1. noun (uncountable) The condition of being weak. “In a small number of horses, muscle weakness may progress to paralysis.”
  2. noun (countable) An inadequate quality; fault. “His inability to speak in front of an audience was his weakness.”
  3. noun (countable) A special fondness or obsessing desire. “She is an athlete who has a weakness for chocolate.”

Synonyms

debility frailty vulnerability vincibility defect flaw hole soft spot failing helplessness impuissance

Antonyms

strength power powerfulness invulnerability invincibility forte

Etymology

From Middle English weyknesse, replacing earlier Middle English wocnesse, wakenes, wacnesse (“weakness”), from Old English wācnes (“weakness”). Equivalent to weak + -ness.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.
  2. noun That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect.

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

Sanskrit

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

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