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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

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better

/ˈbɛtə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈbɛtə/

better

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

bet - ter -> better

Myanmar meaning

(adj[com]) ပို၍ကောင်းသော။နေကောင်းလာသော။ပိုမိုကောင်းမွန်လာသော။ (adv) ပို၍ကောင်းစွာ။ (n) လောင်းကစားသူ။ (pron) သာလွန်သူ။ သာလွန်သောအရာ။ (v) တိုးတတ်ကောင်းမွန်အောင်လုပ်သည်။

Full entry

better¹ /'betǝ(r)/ adj (comparative of GOOD)

၁။ (က) သာသော။ ကောင်းသော။ a better worker/job/car ❍ He was in a much/far better mood than usual. ❍ The weather couldn't have been better. ❍ I liked last week's programme, but this week's was even better. ❍ Life was difficult then but things have got better and better over the years. ❍ There's nothing better than a good hot bath before bedtime. (ခ) ပို၍ ကျွမ်းကျင်သော၊ သာသော။ She's better at science than me. (ဂ) ပို၍သင့်တော်သော။ ပို၍ ရှင်းသော။ Having talked to everyone involved I now have a better idea (of) what happened. ❍ Can't you think of a better word than ‘nice’ to describe your trip? See also BEST adj
၂။ သက်သာသော။ နေသာသော။ I'm (feeling) much better today, thanks. ❍ His ankle is getting better. See also WELL adj ၁ Compare WORSE ၂
adv (comparative of WELL adj )
၁။ ပို၍ကောင်းစွာ။ You would write better if you had a good pen. ❍ She sings better than I do.
၂။ ထက်ပိုမို၍။ I like him better than her. ❍ You'll like the play better when you understand it more. ❍ The better I know her, the more I admire her. ❍ He's looking for a better-paid job.
၃။ (သင့်လျော်ကြောင်းပြ စကား)။ ပိုကောင်းမည်။ His advice is better ignored. ❍ Some things are better left unsaid.
n [U] ပို၍ကောင်းမွန်မှု။ I expected better of him (ie I thought he would have behaved better).
v
၁။ (က) သာအောင်လုပ်သည်။ This achievement cannot be bettered.
(ခ) တိုးတက်ကောင်းမွန်အောင် လုပ်သည်။ The government hopes to better the conditions of the workers.
၂။ ~ oneself ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် အဆင့်အတန်းမြင့် အောင် ကြိုးစားသည်။
❏ against one's better judgement [IDM ] သင့်တော်လှ သည်ဟု မဆိုသာသော်လည်း။ He agreed, much against his better judgement.
❏ one's better half [IDM ] (infml joc ) ဇနီး (သို့) ခင်ပွန်း။
❏ be better off [IDM ]
၁။ ပို၍ကောင်းသည်။ ပို၍ အဆင်ပြေ သည်။ We'd be better off without him as a partner. ❍ She'd be better off in an old people's home, really.
၂။ ငွေကြေးအခြေအနေ ပိုကောင်းသည်။ We could afford a car if we were better off.
❏ be better off doing sth [IDM ] (တစ်ခုခုလုပ်လိုက် ခြင်းက) ပိုကောင်းမည်။ He'd be better off going to the police about it.
❏ better the devil you know (than the devil you don't) [IDM ] (saying ) ဘာမှန်းမသိတဲ့မောင်ပုလဲနဲ့စာရင် သိထားတဲ့ဒိုင်းဝန်ကမှ တော်လိမ့်ဦးမယ်။
❏ (feel/be) (all) the better for sth [IDM ] ကိုယ်၊ စိတ် ချမ်းသာသည်။ You'll feel all the better for (having had) a holiday.
❏ better late than never [IDM ] (saying )
၁။ (နောက်ကျ ရာ၌သုံးသော တောင်းပန်စကား)။
၂။ နောက်ကျပေမည့် ဖြစ်လာ တာပဲတော်လှပြီ။
❏ better luck next time [IDM ] (saying ) (အားပေး စကား)။ နောက်တစ်ချီတော့ ကံပိုကောင်းမှာပါ။
❏ betterment n [U] (fml ) တိုးတက်ကောင်းမွန်ခြင်း။ တိုးတက် ကောင်းမွန်အောင်လုပ်ခြင်း။
❏ better safe than sorry [IDM ] (saying ) ကမူးရှူးထိုး လုပ်မိ၍ နောင်တရနေမည့်အစား အချိန်ယူ၍အပိုင် လုပ်သင့်သည်။
❏ do better to do sth [IDM ] … ရင်ပိုကောင်းမယ်။ Don't buy now — you'd do better to wait for the sales.
❏ for better or worse [IDM ] ကောင်းသည်ဖြစ်စေ၊ ဆိုးသည် ဖြစ်စေ။ It's done, and, for better or worse, we can't change it now.
❏ get the better of sb/sth [IDM ] သာသည်။ နိုင်သည်။ စိုးမိုး(သွား)သည်။ You always get the better of me at chess. ❍ His shyness got the better of him (ie He was so shy he could not speak, take action, etc at that moment).
❏ get the better of sth [IDM ] (ငြင်းခုံရာ စသည်၌) နိုင် သည်။ She always gets the better of our quarrels.
❏ go one better (than sb/sth) [IDM ] သာအောင်လုပ်သည်။ I bought a small boat, then he went one better and bought a yacht.
❏ had better/best [IDM ] (ပို၍) သင့်မည်၊ ကောင်းမည်။ You'd better not say that. ❍ Hadn't we better take an umbrella? ❍ I had better (ie I think I should) begin by introducing myself. ❍ ‘I promise I'll pay you back tomorrow. ’ ‘You'd better!’ (ie as a threat). ❍ SHOULD
❏ have seen/known better days [IDM ] အရင်ကတော့ ရွှေထီးဆောင်းခဲ့ဖူးတာပဲ။ That coat has seen better days.
❏ the less/least said (about sb/sth)the better [IDM ] (saying ) ရေငုံနေတာပဲကောင်းတယ်။
❏ (be) little/no better than [IDM ] နှင့်မထူး။ He's no better than a common thief.
❏ so much the better/worse (for sb/sth) [IDM ] ပို၍ ကောင်းသည်၊ ဆိုးသည်။ The result is not very important to us, but if we do win, (then) so much the better.
❏ that's better [IDM ] (အားပေးနှစ်သိမ့်စကား)။ အဲဟုတ်ပြီ။ Dry your eyes. That's better.

better² /'betǝ(r)/ n

လောင်းကစားသူ။ အလောင်းအစားလုပ်သူ။

More examples

She’s trying to find a better job.
[better than] : The results were better than we had expected.
[get better] : The situation is unlikely to get better in the foreseeable future.
[much/far/a lot better] : I can think of far better ways of spending a million pounds.
[little/no better] : There was a growing economic crisis in Asia, and things were no better in Europe.
Maggie’s a better cook than I’ll ever be.
[better at] : Alec is a lot better at sport than I am.
She’s a little better today, but I think she should stay in bed.
You’ll feel better when you’ve had something to eat.
Is your headache any better?
[better for something] : I had a good rest, and I’m feeling a lot better for it.

Synonyms

improved, enhanced, superior, CEO, advance, ameliorate, amend, beat, best, bigger, cap, change for the better, choice, convalescent, correct, cured, enhance, exceed, exceeding, excel, excelling, exceptional, finer, fitter, forward, fully recovered, further, greater, head honcho, healthier, help, higher quality, higher up, higher-up, improve, improve on, improving, in a superior way, in good health, key player, larger, less ill, longer, meliorate, meliority, mend, mending, more, more advantageously, more appropriate, more attractively, more competently, more completely, more desirable, more effectively, more excellent, more fitting, more healthy, more select, more suitable, more thoroughly, more useful, more valuable, on the comeback trail, on the mend, on the road to recovery, out of the woods, outdo, outshine, outstrip, over the hump, pre-eminence, predomination, preferable, preferably, preferred, preponderant, progress, progressing, prominent, promote, raise, recovering, rectify, refine, reform, restored, revamp, sharpened, sophisticated, souped up, stronger, superiority, surpass, surpassing, to a greater degree, top, transcend, transcendence, weightier, well, whip hand, worthier

Antonyms

be inferior, block, cease, check, corrupt, damage, decrease, deteriorate, fail, fall behind, get worse, halt, harm, hinder, hurt, impair, impede, inferior, injure, littler, lose, lower, more ill, obstruct, reduce, retreat, ruin, sicker, smaller, stop, tinier, unhealthy, worse, worsen

Cross references

improved enhanced superior CEO advance ameliorate amend beat best bigger cap change for the better choice convalescent correct cured enhance exceed exceeding excel excelling exceptional finer fitter forward fully recovered further greater

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