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say it: JAWN-dist
jaundiced is an adjective meaning "affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɔndɪst/ — JAWN-dist. It carries 2 recorded senses.
showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste
“looked with a jaundiced eye on the growth of regimentation”
“takes a jaundiced view of societies and clubs”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jaundiced come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.