for what it's worth

US pronunciation

American soundfor what it's worth

forwhatitsworth

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

for - what - its - worth -> for what it's worth

Myanmar meaning

[IDM ] (အကြံပြုရာ၌ သုံးသောစကား)။ တွေးတတ်သရွေ့တော့။

Full entry

worth /wɜ:θ/ adj (usu used like a prep )

၁။ be ~ sth တန်[သော]။ Our house is worth about £ 60 000. ❍ I paid only $3 000 for this painting, but it's worth a lot more.
၂။ ကြွယ်ဝ[သော]။ ချမ်းသာ[သော]။ He's worth about £10 million.
၃။ ~ sth/ doing sth ထိုက်[သော]။ သင့်[သော]။ အပ်[သော]။ It's not worth the effort/ the trouble. ❍ The scheme is worth a try. ❍ This book is well worth reading. ❍ He felt that his life was no longer worth living. ❍ Don't bother washing your car every week— it's not worth it. ❍ It's an idea that's worth considering. See also WORTHWHILE
n [U]
၁။ ~ of sth (အရေအတွက်ပြ နာမ်နောက်၌ သုံးသည်။ )
(က) အဖိုးငွေပမာဏ။ The thieves stole £5 000 worth of jewellery.
(ခ) (အချိန်တစ်ခုခုအထိသာ ခံမည့်) ပမာဏ။ …စာ။ two weeks' worth of groceries.
၂။ (က) တန်ဖိုး။ items of great/ little worth.
(ခ) (လူ့) အဖိုးတန်။ a man of great worth.
❏ for all one/ it is worth [IDM ] အစွမ်းကုန်။ ရေကုန်ရေခန်း။ မီးကုန်ယမ်းကုန်။ It's a marvellous part, and she plays it for all it's worth. ❍ They're promoting their new course for all they're worth.
❏ for what it's worth [IDM ] (အကြံပြုရာ၌ သုံးသောစကား)။ တွေးတတ်သရွေ့တော့။ So that's what I think, for what it's worth.
❏ not worth a damn, a straw, a red cent, a tinker's cuss, etc [IDM ] (infml ) အသုံးမကျ။ အလကား။ Their promises are not worth a damn.
❏ not worth the paper it's written on [IDM ] (လေးစား လိုက်နာခြင်းမရှိ၍) သုံးမရသော (စာချုပ်၊ သဘောတူညီချက် စသည်)။
❏ worth every penny [IDM ] ကုန်ရကျိုးနပ်သည်။ တန် သည်။ The trip cost a lot but it was worth every penny.
❏ worthless adj
၁။ သုံးမရသော။ worthless old chairs ❍ worthless promises. ❍ INVALUABLE
၂။ အသုံးမကျ သော။ a worthless character. worthlessness n [U]: a sense of his own worthlessness.
❏ worth one's salt [IDM ] အရည်အချင်းရှိသည်။ တော်သည်။ Any teacher worth her salt knows that.
❏ worth one's/ its weight in gold [IDM ] အလွန်အသုံးဝင် သည်။ အဖိုးတန်သည်။ A good mechanic is worth his weight in gold.
❏ worth sb's while [IDM ] အကျိုးရှိသည်။ အကျိုးနပ်သည်။ It would be (well) worth your while to come to the meeting. ❍ They promised to make it worth her while (ie pay her well) to take part.

More examples

How much do you reckon the house is worth?
[worth ten pounds/$100/a lot etc] : A Gucci watch worth £1, 000
I didn’t think the furniture would be worth anything.
[worth a fortune] : The building itself must be worth a fortune.
[be worth doing/having/seeing etc] : The book is definitely worth reading.
We believe that our freedom is worth fighting for.
[worth a try/visit/look] : Owen’s plan was risky, but it was worth a try.
[well worth] : The Museum of Fine Arts is well worth a visit.
[be worth the effort/time/trouble] : It’s a long way, and probably not worth the effort.
[it is worth doing something] : It’s worth talking to your financial adviser before making your final decision.
[be worth it] : It was hard work, but it was worth it in the end.
[be worth something/a lot/a great deal etc] : She knows that her loyalty is worth a great deal to Charles.
I’m afraid the government’s promises aren’t worth much.
She is now worth 20 million dollars.

Synonyms

value, merit, appeal, significance, attraction, importance, meaning, account, aid, assets, assistance, avail, benefit, caliber, class, consequence, cost, credit, desirability, dignity, doesn't cut it, doublespeak, equivalence, excellence, goodness, help, mark, meaningfulness, meaningless, means, moment, note, perfection, price, priced, purportless, quality, rate, stature, substance, unmeaning, unpurposed, use, usefulness, utility, valuation, virtue, wealth, weight, worthiness

Antonyms

evil, hindrance, hurt, imperfection, injury, insignificance, stop, triviality, unimportance, uselessness, worthlessness