broadness

/ˈbrɔːdnəs/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈbrɔːdnəs/

broadness

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Aw vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

broad - ness -> broadness

Myanmar meaning

(n) အကျယ်။ကျယ်ဝန်းခြင်း။

Full entry

broad¹ /brↄ:d/ adj (-er, -est )

၁။ ကျယ်သော။ ကျယ်ပြန့်သော။ a broad street/avenue/river/canal ❍ broad shoulders ❍ He is tall broad and muscular. Compare NARROW ၁, THIN ၁ ❍ WIDE
၂။ ဗြက်၊ အနံ၊ အကျယ် ရှိသော။ a river twenty metres broad.
၃။ (က) ထွေပြားသော။ များပြားသော။ a broad range of people/opinions/backgrounds ❍ a broad spectrum of interests ❍ There is broad support for the government's policies.
(ခ) (ရေပြင်၊ မြေပြင်) အပြန့်ကျယ်သော။ a broad expanse of water ❍ the broad plains of the American, West.
၄။ ယေဘုယျကျသော။ အသေးစိတ် မဟုတ်သော။ the broad outline of a plan/proposal ❍ The negotiators reached broad agreement on the main issues. ❍ She's a feminist, in the broadest sense of the word. နေရာတကာမှာ မိန်းမပီသတဲ့ မိန်းမပဲ။
၅။ သိသာသော။ ပေါ်လွင်သော။ a broad grin/smile ❍ The minister gave a broad hint that she intends to raise taxes.
၆။ (အတွေး၊ အမြင်) မကျဉ်းမြောင်းသော၊ အယူမသီးသော။ a man of broad views.
၇။ (စကားပြောရာတွင်) ဒေသိယ လေသံပါသော။ ဝဲသော။ a broad Yorkshire accent.
၈။ ရိုင်းသော။ broad humour.
❏ broad-based (also broadly-based ) adj အောက်ခြေ ကျယ်ပြန့်သော။ a broad-based government/education.
❏ broad bean n (က) ပဲလက်မ။
(ခ) (ယင်းမှရသော အစေ့ကြီး၍ပြားသည့်) ပဲလက်မသီး။
❏ (in) broad daylight [IDM ] နေ့ခင်းကြောင်တောင်။ The robbery occurred in broad daylight, in a crowded street.
❏ broaden /'brↄ:dn/ v ~ (out) ကျယ်ပြန့်လာသည်၊ လာစေ သည်။ ချဲ့ထွင်သည်။ ကားပြန့်လာသည်။ ကျယ်ဝန်းလာသည်။ The road broadens (out) after this bend. ❍ You should broaden your experience/mind by travelling more.
❏ broad in the beam [IDM ] (infml) တင်ကြီးကြီး။ တင်ကားကား။
❏ broad jump n [sing] (US ) = LONG JUMP
❏ broad-leaved adj = BROADLEAF
❏ broadly adv
၁။ ပေါ်ပေါ်လွင်လွင်။ သိသိသာသာ။ ထင်ထင်ရှားရှား။ smile/grin broadly.
၂။ ယေဘုယျ အားဖြင့်။ Broadly speaking, I agree with you. ❍ The book takes a broadly historical approach. broadness n [U] = BREADTH
❏ broad-minded adj သဘောထားကြီးသော။ တစ်ယူသန်အစွဲ မထားသော။ broad-mindedness n [U]
❏ it's as broad as it's long [IDM ] (infml ) ပိန်မသာ လိမ်မသာပဲ။

broad² /brↄ:d/ n

(US sl derog ) ကောင်မ။

More examples

He was of medium height, but had very broad shoulders.
A broad shady path
With a broad sweep of his arm, he indicated the town below us.
[a broad expanse] : The road passed through a broad expanse of flooded fields.
[a broad range/spectrum] : I meet a broad range of people in my job.
Our radio station plays a broad spectrum of popular music.
[a broad base] : The party is now struggling to maintain a broad political base.
[broad appeal] : The new TV show has broad appeal.
[broad categories] : Tropical diseases fall into two broad categories.
We need to define a broad strategy for future development.
[broad aims] : We support the broad aims which underlie this Bill.
[a broad outline] : This chapter can only give a broad outline of the subject.
[in the broadest sense] : It’s conservative, in the broadest sense of the word.
[a broad generalization] : You make too many broad generalizations about people.
There is now a broad consensus that the government was right about this.
A broad northern accent

Synonyms

wide, large, big, extensive, expansive, open, a woman, advanced, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, ample, apparent, approximate, babe, bimbo, blue, capacious, chick, clear, coarse, comprehensive, copious, cultivated, dame, deep, dirty, dish, distinct, distinctive, doll, doxy, encyclopedic, experienced, explicit, extended, far-flung, far-reaching, female, floozy, full, gal, general, generous, girl, gross, hazy, heavy, honey, immense, imprecise, improper, inclusive, indecent, indelicate, inexact, lady, lassie, latitudinous, liberal-minded, low-minded, marked, miss, moll, nonspecific, obvious, off-color, open-minded, outspread, outstretched, patent, permissive, plain, progressive, pronounced, purple, racy, radical, risquÃ©, roomy, rough, salty, saucy, scopic, sketchy, skirt, smutty, spacious, spicy, splay, squat, straightforward, strong, suggestive, sweeping, sweet thing, thick, tolerant, tootsie, transparent, ubiquitous, unbiased, undetailed, undisguised, unequivocal, universal, unlimited, unrefined, unrestrained, unsubtle, vast, visible, voluminous, vulgar, wicked, wide physically, wide-ranging, widespread

Antonyms

ambiguous, clean, close-minded, empty, exclusive, limited, little, man, miniature, narrow, obscure, particular, precise, quiet, restricted, slight, small, small-minded, subtle, thin, tiny, unclear, vague