greatest

/ɡreɪt/

US pronunciation

American sound/ɡreɪt/

greatest

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

grea - test -> greatest

Myanmar meaning

(adj[sup]) အကြီးမားဆုံး

Full entry

great / greÇt / adj (-er, est )

၁။ (က) ကြီးမားသော။ အလွန် ကျယ်ပြန့်သော။ နက်ရှိုင်းသော။ များပြားသော။ အလွန်ဝေးကွာသော။ The great ship sank below the waves. ❍ The area of forest that has been destroyed is very great. ❍ dive to a great depth ❍ A great crowd had gathered. ❍ People were arriving in great numbers. ❍ He lives a great distance away. ❍ She lived to a great age. ❍ The great majority (of people) (ie Most people) approve. ❍ The greater part (ie Most) of the area is flooded.
(ခ) ကြီးမားသော။ လွန်ကဲသော။ ထူးကဲသော။ of great value/ importance/ relevance/ significance ❍ He described it in great detail. ❍ be in great demand (ie much wanted) ❍ Take great care of it. ❍ It's a great relief to know you're safe. ❍ You've been a great help. ❍ This is a great opportunity for you. ❍ BIG
၂။ (က) ထူးချွန်သော။ ထူးကဲသော။ ပြောင်မြောက်သော။ a great man/ artist/ musician ❍ perform great deeds ❍ the world's greatest violinist ❍ No one would deny that Beethoven's symphonies are great masterpieces.
(ခ) ဂုဏ်မြင့်သော။ ကြီးမြတ်သော။ အင်အားကြီးမားသော။ a great lady ❍ the great powers (ie important and powerful countries) ❍ Alexander the Great.
၃။ (က) အရေးကြီးသော။ ခမ်းနား ကြီးကျယ်သော။ The governor was getting married, and everyone was in town for the great occasion. ❍ As the great day approached, she grew more and more nervous.
(ခ) အရေးကြီးသော။ ထူးကဲသော။ great developments in the prevention of disease ❍ A/ The great advantage of this metal is that it doesn't rust.
၄။ (ကိုယ်၊ စိတ်) ကျန်းမာကြံ့ခိုင်သော။ အားအင် ပြည့်ဝသော။ in great form/ shape (ie very fit and active) ❍ in great spirits (ie very cheerful) ❍ I feel great today!
၅။ (က) (infml ) အလွန်ကောင်းသော။ အလွန်တော်သော။ အလွန်ဝမ်းမြောက်ရသော။ အလွန်ပျော်ရသော။ Isn't he great? ❍ She's the greatest! ❍ It's great that you can come! ❍ What a great party! ❍ He scored a great goal. ❍ We had a great time in Majorca. ❍ It's great to have met you! (ခ) (ironic ) (သရော်သော၊ ငေါ့သောအားဖြင့်) ကောင်းပါပေ့၊ သိပ်ကောင်းကွာ။ Oh great, I've missed the bus again! ❍ You've been a great help, you have! (ဂ) ~ for (doing) sth (infml ) အလွန်သင့်လျော်သော။ အလွန် အသုံးဝင်သော။ This little gadget's great for opening jars. ❍ These are great shoes for muddy weather.
(ဃ) ~ at (doing) sth (infml ) ကျွမ်း[သော]။ တော်[သော]။ She's great at tennis/ chess.
၆။ အလွန်… သော။ အင်မတန်…သော။ We are great friends. ❍ I've never been a great reader (ie I do not read much). ❍ He's a great one for complaining (ie He constantly complains).
၇။ (infml ) ဧရာမ။ She has four great big sons. ❍ He cut himself a great thick slice of cake.
၈။ (ဆွေမျိုး အစဉ်အဆက်ပြ 'grand' ရှေ့တွင် တစ်ဆက်ပို၍ ရှေးခြင်း၊ နှောင်းခြင်း ပြသော စကား)။ one's great grandfather (ie one's father's or mother's grandfather) ❍ one's great grandson (ie the GRANDSON of one's son or daughter).
၉။ (dated infml ) (အံ့ဩခြင်းပြ အာမေဍ္ဍိတ် စကား)။ Great heavens!
၁၀။ Greater (Brit) မဟာ။ Greater Manchester ❍ Greater London.
n
၁။ [C usu pl ] (infml ) ထူးချွန်သောပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။ one of boxing's all-time greats.
၂။ the great [pl v ] လူကုံထံ ကြေးရတတ်။ a fashionable affair attended by the great and the good.
❏ be no great shakes [IDM ] (infml ) အကောင်းစားထဲက မဟုတ်။ She's no great shakes as an actress. ❍ The film was no great shakes.
❏ going great guns [IDM ] (infml ) ခရီးတွင်လျက် ရှိသည်။ Work is going great guns now.
❏ great and small [IDM ] ဆင်းရဲချမ်းသာမရွေး။ မျက်နှာ ကြီးငယ်မရွေး။ Everyone, great and small, is affected by these changes.
❏ Great Britain (abbr GB ) (also Britain ) n အင်္ဂလန်၊ ဝေလနယ်နှင့် စကော့တလန်။
❏ Great Dane n မွေးတို ခွေးအကြီးစားမျိုး။
❏ the great sth in the sky [IDM ] (joc ) တမလွန် ဘဝ။ He's gone to the great ballroom in the sky. ❍ The car is heading for the great big garage in the sky. ❏ greatly adv အလွန်။ We were greatly amused. ❍ The reports were greatly exaggerated. ❍ He has suffered greatly.
❏ greatness n [U] နာမည်၊ ဂုဏ်သတင်း စသည် ကြီးခြင်း။ achieve greatness in one's lifetime.
❏ the Great War n [sing] (dated ) ၁၉၁၄- ၁၉၁၈ တွင် ဖြစ်ပွားသော ပထမကမ္ဘာစစ်ကြီး။

More examples

She had great difficulty in guessing where I was from.
They could be in great danger.
He was in a great hurry.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome our next guest.
This is a great opportunity to raise a lot of money.
They dug this whacking great hole.
[great big] : A great big piece of chocolate
Shakespeare wrote a great many plays.
The great majority disagree.
The great river
A great feast
The castle’s great hall
The Great Barrier Reef
The great white shark
A great military power
The greatest environmental disaster in decades
A great healthcare crisis
The Great Depression of the 1930s
The Great Fire of London of 1666
One of the greatest writers of the modern age
A great work of art
The really great thing about this computer is its speed.
The great advantage is that this place is so near to town.
I’m your greatest admirer.

Synonyms

huge, immense, enormous, vast, large, big, grand, OK, able, absolute, abundant, aces, adept, admirable, adroit, ample, august, awesome, bad, best, big league, boundless, brutal, bulky, bull, capital, celebrated, chief, cold, colossal, commanding, complete, considerable, consummate, cool, countless, crack, critical, decided, dignified, distinguished, downright, dynamite, egregious, elevated, eminent, exalted, excellent, exceptional, excessive, expert, extended, extensive, extravagant, extreme, fab, famed, famous, fantastic, fat, fine, first-class, first-rate, gigantic, glorious, good, goody, grievous, groovy, heavy, hellacious, heroic, high, high-minded, highly regarded, honorable, humongous, husky, idealistic, illustrious, important, imposing, impressive, inordinate, intense, jumbo, leading, lengthy, lofty, long, magnanimous, magnificent, main, majestic, major, major league, mammoth, marvelous, masterly, momentous, mondo, noble, notable, noted, noteworthy, number one, numerous, out of sight, out of this world, out-and-out, outstanding, oversize, paramount, perfect, positive, primary, principal, prodigious, proficient, profound, prolonged, prominent, pronounced, protracted, puissant, regal, remarkable, renowned, roger, royal, serious, significant, skillful, splendid, stately, strong, stupendous, sublime, super-duper, superior, superlative, surpassing, talented, terrible, terrific, titanic, total, tough, towering, transcendent, tremendous, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very large, voluminous, weighty, wonderful

Antonyms

OK, auxiliary, awful, bad, common, contemptible, conventional, detestable, expected, extra, few, flawed, ignorant, imperfect, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, inessential, infamous, inferior, insignificant, limited, little, low, lowly, menial, mild, miniature, minor, minute, moderate, nonessential, ordinary, plain, poor, powerless, rotten, secondary, short, slight, small, soft, stupid, subordinate, teeny, thin, tiny, unamazing, uncelebrated, undignified, unimportant, unimpressive, unknown, unnecessary, unpleasant, unremarkable, unskilled, usual, weak

Cross references

huge immense enormous vast large big grand OK able absolute abundant aces adept admirable adroit ample august awesome bad best big league boundless brutal bulky bull capital celebrated chief