meanly

/ˈmiːnli/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈmiːnli/

meanly

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Long vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

mean - ly -> meanly

Myanmar meaning

ညစ်ကျယ်ကျယ်

Full entry

mean¹ /mi:n / v (pt, pp meant /ment/)

၁။ ~ sth (to sb) အဓိပ္ပာယ်ရသည်။ အဓိပ္ပာယ် သက်ရောက်သည်။ ဆိုလိုသည်။ A dictionary tells you what words mean. ❍ What does this sentence mean? ❍ These symbols mean nothing to me. ❍ The flashing lights mean (that) the road is blocked.
၂။ အကျိုးသက်ရောက်သည်။ အဓိပ္ပာယ် သက်ရောက်သည်။ သဘောပေါက်သည်။ လက္ခဏာရှိသည်။ ဆိုလိုသည်။ Spending too much now will mean a shortage of cash next year. ❍ Do you have any idea what it means to be poor? ❍ The warmer weather means (that) spring is here. ❍ This new order will mean (us) working overtime.
၃။ (က) ~ sth for sb ; ~ sth (as sth) ; ~ sth (to sb) ဆိုလိုသည်။ သဘောရှိသည်။ ရည်ရွယ်သည်။ What did she mean by leaving so early? (ie Why did she do it?) ❍ He means what he says (ie is not joking, exaggerating, etc). ❍ Don't laugh! I mean it (ie I am serious)! ❍ He means (to cause) trouble/ mischief. ❍ She meant this gift for you. ❍ I never meant that you should come alone. ❍ She means to succeed. ❍ I'm sorry I hurt you: I didn't mean to. ❍ I wasn't serious. I meant it as a joke. ❍ I didn't mean you to read the letter. ❍ You're meant to (ie You are supposed to) pay before you go in. ❍ I mean you no harm. ❍ He means no harm to anyone. (ခ) ဆိုလိုသည်။ ရည်ရွယ်သည်။ What did he mean by that remark? ❍ Do you mean Miss Anne Smith or Miss Mary Smith? ❍ Did he mean (that) he was dissatisfied with our service?
၄။ ~sb for sth ရည်ရွယ်သည်။ ဖြစ်စေ လိုသော ဆန္ဒရှိသည်။ အလားအလာရှိသည်။ I was never meant for the army (ie did not have the qualities needed to become a soldier). ❍ She was never meant to be a teacher. ❍ His father meant him to be an engineer.
၅။ ~ sth to sb (no passive) တန်ဖိုးရှိသည်။ အရေးပါသည်။ အရာရောက်သည်။
Your friendship means a great deal to me. ❍ $ 20 means a lot (ie represents a lot of money) to a poor person. ❍ Money means nothing to him. ❍ You know how much you mean to me (ie how much I like you).
❏ be meant to be sth [IDM ] အဆိုရှိသည်။ This restaurant is meant to be excellent.
❏ mean business [IDM ] (infml) တကယ်တမ်း လုပ်မည့်ပုံ။ He has the look of a man who means business.
❏ mean to say [IDM ] ဆိုလိုသည်။ Do you mean to say you've lost it?
❏ mean well [IDM ] (derog ) စေတနာကောင်းသည်။ He's hopelessly inefficient, but I suppose he means well.

mean² /mi:n / adj (-er,- est )

၁။ တွန့်တိုသော။ ကုတ်ကတ်သော။ နှမြောသော။ She's too mean to make a donation.
၂။ ~ (to sb) ဆိုးရွားသော။ ယုတ်မာသော။ မကြင်နာသော။ ရက်စက်သော။ That was a mean trick! ❍ It was mean of you to eat all the food. ❍ Don't be so mean to your little brother!
၃။ (esp US ) ဆိုးသွမ်းသော။ ခက်ထန်သော။ ဒေါသ ကြီးသော။ He looks like a mean character.
၄။ နုံချာ သော။ စုတ်ပြတ်သော။ mean houses in the poorest part of the city.
၅။ ညံ့သော။ အားနည်းသော။ နုံချာသော။ This should be clear even to the meanest intelligence.
၆။ (dated ) အညတရဖြစ်သော။ နိမ့်ကျသော။ The meanest labourer has the same rights as the richest landowner.
၇။ (infml approv ) အလွန် ကျွမ်းကျင်သော၊ လက်ကောင်းသော။ တော်သော။ a mean golfer ❍ She certainly plays a mean game of cards.
❏ meanie /'mi:ni / n (infml ) ကပ်စေးနှဲကော်တရာ။ Give me some more, you meanie! meanly adv meanness n [U]
❏ no mean sth [IDM ] (approv ) သာမညောင်ည မဟုတ် သော။ ပေါ့သေးသေးမဟုတ်သော။ She's no mean chess player. ❍ That was no mean feat.

mean³ /mi:n / n

၁။ အလယ်အလတ်။ You must find a mean between frankness and rudeness.
၂။ (mathematics ) (က) ပျမ်းမျှ။ The mean of 13, 5 and 27 is found by adding them together and dividing by 3. (ခ) သမတ်ကိန်း။
adj အလယ်အလတ်ဖြစ်သော။ ပျမ်းမျှဖြစ်သော။ ဗဟို ကျသော။ the mean sea-level ❍ the mean temperature on a certain day.
❏ the happy/golden mean [IDM ] သင့်တင့်မျှတသော လမ်းစဉ်။

More examples

The word means something different in French.
What does ‘pulchritude’ mean?
[mean something by something] : Everything depends on what you mean by the word ‘free’.
When you shake your head it usually means ‘no’.
For most people, Paris means romance.
His behaviour doesn’t mean that he doesn’t like you.
[take something to mean something] : I took their silence to mean disapproval.
That dark patch means that water is coming in.
The look on her face meant only one thing – trouble.
[mean someone something] : I know they didn’t mean our family any disrespect.
[mean someone harm] : She had never meant him any real harm.
[mean to do something] : Whoops! I didn’t mean to step on your toe.
I mean to leave that meeting with a new contract.
[mean someone to do something] : It was our secret – I didn’t mean you to tell him.
We didn’t mean you to lose your job.
[mean something as a joke/compliment/insult] : Don’t be offended: she meant it as a compliment.
[something means doing something] : The new agreement means accepting lower wages.
This development could mean that the lawsuit will be dropped.
No, I don’t mean her – I mean the tall woman.

Synonyms

denote, signify, indicate, stand for, represent, connote, imply, suggest, insinuate, purport, portend, presage, add up, adumbrate, aim, allude, allude to, anticipate, argue, aspire, attest, augur, average, bad-tempered, balance, base, be thinking about, beastly, beggarly, betoken, callous, cantankerous, cause, center, churlish, close, close-fisted, common, compromise, contemplate, contemptible, convey, cruel, dangerous, derisory, design, designate, desire, despicable, destine, determine, difficult, direct, dirty, disagreeable, dishonorable, down, down-at-heel, drive at, dÃ©classÃ©, entail, evil, expect, express, fate, fit, foreshadow, foretell, formidable, greedy, hack, happy medium, hard, hard-nosed, have in mind, herald, hint at, hostile, humble, ignoble, ill-tempered, import, inadequate, ineffectual, infamous, inferior, insignificant, insufficient, intend, intimate, involve, knavish, lead to, limited, liverish, lousy, low, low-down and dirty, lowborn, lowly, make, malicious, malign, match, meager, measly, median, mediocre, menial, mercenary, mid, middle, middle course, midpoint, mingy, miserable, miserly, modest, name, narrow, nasty, necessitate, niggard, niggardly, norm, normal, obscure, ordinary, paltry, par, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, perfidious, pesky, petty, pitiful, plan, plebeian, point to, poor, predestine, preordain, proletarian, promise, propose, purpose, rapacious, require, resolve, result in, rotten, rough, rude, rugged, run-down, say, scant, scanty, scrimpy

Antonyms

abnormal, agreeable, aristocratic, border, cheerful, clean, comfortable, compassionate, decent, deny, elevated, extraordinary, extreme, extremity, friendly, generous, gentle, good, happy, high, honest, ignore, kind, margin, mild, moral, neglect, nice, noble, outside, pleasant, pleasing, polite, refuse, rich, safe, sensitive, superior, sympathetic, uncommon, unrestricted, unselfish, upright