certain

/ˈsəːt(ə)n/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈsəːt(ə)n/

certain

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

cer - tain -> certain

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ယုံမှားဖွယ် မရှိ။ သေချာ။ စိတ်ချနိုင်။ ကျိန်းသေ။ (ဖြစ်လာရန်)သေချာ သော။ ထိုထိုသော။ ဆိုသော။ ဟုဆို သော။ အနည်းငယ်။ အတန်ငယ်။ (pron) အချို့။ (adv) အချို့

Full entry

certain /'sɜ:tn/ adj

၁။ ~ (that …) ; ~ (to do sth) ယုံမှားဖွယ် မရှိ[သော]။ သေချာ[သော]။ စိတ်ချနိုင်[သော]။
It is certain that he will agree/He is certain to agree. ❍ One thing is certain—I'm not coming here again.
၂။ ~ (that …) ; ~ (of/about sth) ကျိန်းသေ[သော]။
I'm certain (that) she saw me. ❍ She saw me—I'm certain of that. ❍ I'm not certain (about) what she wants.
၃။ (ဖြစ်လာရန်)သေချာ သော။
There is no certain cure for this disease. ❍ They face certain death unless they can be rescued today.
၄။ ထိုထိုသော။
For certain personal reasons I will be unable to attend the meeting. ❍ The terrorists will only release their hostages on certain conditions.
၅။ ဆိုသော။ ဟုဆို သော။
A certain Mr Brown telephoned while you were out.
၆။ အနည်းငယ်။ အတန်ငယ်။
There was a certain coldness in her attitude towards me. ❍ I felt a certain reluctance to tell her the news.
❏ certain pron ~ of … အချို့။
Certain of those present had had too much to drink.
❏ certainly adv
၁။ မုချ။ ဧကန်။ မလွဲ။ မချွတ်။ He will certainly die if you don't call a doctor. ❍ I'm certainly never going there again. Compare SURELY
၂။ (ဖြေကြား ရာ၌သုံးသည်။ ) ဟုတ်ကဲ့။ ရပါတယ်။ ‘May I borrow your pen for a moment?’ ‘Certainly. ’
❏ certainly not adv ကြံကြံဖန်ဖန်။ တောက်တီးတောက်တဲ့။ မဟုတ်ကဟုတ်က။ ကြံကြီးစည်ရာ။ ‘Do you let your children drink alcohol?’ ‘Certainly not!’
❏ certainty /'sɜ:tnti/ n
၁။ [C] ဧကန်ဖြစ်သောအရာ။ ကျိန်း သေ။ political/religious/moral certainties ❍ Her return to the team is now regarded as a certainty. ❍ That horse is a certainty to win the Derby.
၂။ [U] သေချာမှု။ ဧကန်ဧက။
I can't say with any certainty where I'll be next week. ❍ There can be no certainty of success.
❏ for certain [IDM ] သေချာပေါက်။ I couldn't say for certain when he'll arrive. ❍ I don't yet know for certain.
❏ make certain (that …) [IDM ] သေချာအောင်လုပ်ဖို့လို တယ်။ သေချာပါစေ။
I think there's a train at 8.20 but you ought to make certain.
❏ make certain of sth/of doing sth [IDM ] သေချာ ချင်ရင်တော့။ စိတ်ချချင်ရင်တော့။
You'd better leave now if you want to make certain of getting there on time.

More examples

I’m not absolutely certain, but I think I’m right.
[certain (that)] : You can be pretty certain she’s not going to like it.
[certain who] : We still can’t be certain who is going to win.
[certain of/about] : I’ve never been more certain of anything in my entire life.
You don’t seem too certain about it.
[know/say for certain] : I think I met her in 1985, but I can’t say for certain.
They face certain death if they are sent back to their home country.
Success is by no means certain.
[be certain to do something] : Interest rates seem certain to rise next month.
[it is certain (that)] : It’s not certain that this method would have worked.
[certain of] : Mexico is now certain of a place in the finals.
One thing was certain: someone had been in his room.
[it is certain who] : It’s not yet certain who the driver of the car was.

Synonyms

sure, convinced, positive, confident, firm, definite, assured, a couple, a few, a number of, a selection of, a variety of, absolute, accurate, ascertained, assertive, authoritative, believing, bound, calm, certified, clear, cocksure, concluded, conclusive, confirmable, decided, defined, demonstrable, dependable, destined, determined, divers, ensured, establishable, established, evident, express, fixed, genuine, guaranteed, having down pat, in the bag, incontrovertible, individual, indubitable, infallible, insured, irrefutable, known, many, marked, numerous, on ice, one, particular, plain, precise, predestined, provable, questionless, real, regular, reliable, safe, salted away, sanguine, satisfied, secure, selected, self-confident, set, settled, several, singular, some, sound, special, specific, specified, stated, stipulated, sundry, supreme, sure thing, true, trustworthy, unambiguous, unconcerned, undeniable, undisturbed, undoubtable, undoubted, undoubtful, undoubting, unequivocal, unerring, unmistakable, unperturbed, untroubled, upwards of, valid, various, verifiable, warranted

Antonyms