how to pronounce mercurial

/mɚkˈjʊɹiːəl/

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the above transcription of mercurial is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

mercurial is pronounced in four syllables

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m
ɚ
k

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j
ʊ

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ɹ
iː

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ə
l

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mɚkjʊɹiːəl

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An example use of mercurial in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… well paul from the paul mercurial show …”

meanings of mercurial

adjective:

  1. Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence, money-making; crafty.
  2. Pertaining to the planet Mercury.
  3. Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.
  4. Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mercury; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see adjective sense 1).
  5. Of or pertaining to the element mercury or quicksilver; containing mercury.
  6. Caused by the action of mercury or a mercury compound.

noun:

  1. A chemical compound containing mercury.
  2. Any of the plants known as mercury, especially the annual mercury or French mercury (Mercurialis annua).
  3. A person born under the influence of the planet Mercury; hence, a person having an animated, lively, quick-witted or volatile character.
  4. A preparation of mercury, especially as a treatment for syphilis.

mercurial frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word mercurial occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics mercurial can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that mercurial can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

words with pronunciation similar to mercurial

curious

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