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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worst

UK /wɜːst/ · US /wɜɹst/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of bad badly ill

Forms worsts worsting worsted

  1. adjective Most inferior; doing the least good. “I think putting oil on a burn is the worst thing you can do.”
  2. adjective Most unfavorable. “That's the worst news I've had all day.”
  3. adjective Most harmful or severe. “The worst storm we had last winter knocked down our power lines.”
  4. adjective Used with the definite article and an implied noun: something that is worst. “None of these photographs of me are good, but this one is definitely the worst.”
  5. noun Something or someone that is the worst.
  6. verb (archaic, transitive) To make worse.
  7. verb (dated, intransitive) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
  8. verb (rare) To outdo or defeat, especially in battle.
  9. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

baddest pessimal pip mop up whip rack up

Antonyms

best optimal

Etymology

From Middle English worste, wurste, warste, werste, wirste, from Old English wierrest, from Proto-Germanic *wirsistaz, superlative form of *ubilaz (“bad, evil”); compare worse.
Cognate with Old Saxon wirsista, wirrista (“worst”), Old High German wirst, wirsesto, wirsisto (“worst”), Danish værst (“worst”), Swedish värst (“worst”), Icelandic verstur (“worst”).

Borrowed from German Worst, a variant of Wurst (“sausage”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse. "Heard so oft in worst extremes." Milton.
  2. noun That which is most bad or evil; the most severe, pernicious, calamitous, or wicked state or degree.
  3. verb To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit.
  4. verb To grow worse; to deteriorate. [R.] "Every face . . .

Etymology [OE. werst, worste, wurste, AS. wyrst, wierst, wierrest. See Worse, a.]

Etymology [See Worse, v. t. & a.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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