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merciful

/ˈməːsɪfʊl/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈməːsɪfʊl/
merciful
Syllables
3 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

mer - ci - ful -> merciful

Myanmar meaning

ကရုဏာရှိသော။

Full entry

mercy /'mɜ:si / n

၁။ [U] သက်ညှာမှု။ ခွင့်လွှတ်မှု။ သနား ကြင်နာမှု။ ကရုဏာ။ They showed no mercy to their captives. ❍ God have mercy on his soul (eg in a prayer). ❍ The prisoner begged for mercy. ❍ a mercy dash/flight. အသက်ကယ် အရေးပေါ်ခရီး၊ ပျံသန်းမှု။
၂။ [C usu sing ] (infml ) ကံကောင်းထောက်မမှု။ သက်သာရာရခြင်း။ ဝဋ် ကျွတ်ခြင်း။ It's a mercy she wasn't hurt in the accident. ❍ His death was a mercy (eg because he was in great pain).
❏ at the mercy of sb/sth/ [IDM ] ပြုသမျှ နုရမည့်။ ကျားသနားမှ နွားချမ်းသာမည့်။ put oneself/be at the mercy of a mortgage lender.
❏ leave sb/sth to the mercy/mercies of sb/sth [IDM ] ဝကွက်အပ်သည်။ privatized companies left to the mercy of market forces.
❏ merciful /-fl / adj ~ (to/towards sb) သက်ညှာသော။ ကရုဏာစိတ်ရှိသော။ She was merciful to the prisoners. ❍ Death came as a merciful release.
❏ mercifully /-fǝli / adv
၁။ (infml) ကံကောင်းလို့။ တော်ပါသေးရဲ့။ The play was very bad, but mercifully it was also short!
၂။ သက်သက်ညှာညှာ။ treat sb mercifully.
❏ merciless adj ~(to/towards sb/sth) မငဲ့ညှာသော။ မသနားတတ်သော။ ရက်စက်သော။ အကြင်နာကင်းမဲ့သော။ a merciless killer/beating ❍ the merciless heat of the sun ❍ The critics were merciless towards his last play.
❏ mercilessly adv ရက်ရက်စက်စက်။ မသနား မညှာတာ။
❏ mercy killing n [U,C] ဝဋ်ကျွတ်အောင် သတ်ပေးခြင်း။
❏ throw oneself on sb's mercy [IDM ] (fml ) ပုံအပ်သည်။ His lawyers advised him to throw himself on the mercy of the court and hope for a lenient sentence.

More examples
  • mercy /'mɜ:si / n ၁။ [U] သက်ညှာမှု။ ခွင့်လွှတ်မှု။ သနား ကြင်နာမှု။ ကရုဏာ။ They showed no mercy to their captives.
  • God have mercy on his soul (eg in a prayer).
  • The prisoner begged for mercy.
  • a mercy dash/flight. အသက်ကယ် အရေးပေါ်ခရီး၊ ပျံသန်းမှု။ ၂။ [C usu sing] ( infml ) ကံကောင်းထောက်မမှု။ သက်သာရာရခြင်း။ ဝဋ် ကျွတ်ခြင်း။ It's a mercy she wasn't hurt in the accident.
  • the merciless heat of the sun
Synonyms
compassion, pity, clemency, forgiveness, kindness, sympathy, understanding, leniency, benevolence, benignancy, blessing, boon, charity, commiseration, favor, forbearance, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, kindliness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, luck, mildness, piece of luck, quarter, relief, ruth, softheartedness, stroke of luck, tenderness, tolerance
Antonyms
bad fortune, blow, cruelty, disapproval, disdain, disfavor, ill will, intolerance, malevolence, meanness, mercilessness, selfishness, uncompassion, unkindness
Cross references
compassionpityclemencyforgivenesskindnesssympathyunderstandingleniencybenevolencebenignancyblessingbooncharitycommiserationfavorforbearancegenerositygentlenessgodsendgoodwillgracehumanitykindlinessleniencelenitylifesaverluckmildness
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