no-nonsense

US pronunciation

American soundno nonsense

nononsense

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final e often stays silent

no - nonsense -> no nonsense

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

၁။ (also no ) (pl Nos, nos ) (US symb #) NUMBER: room no 145 (eg in a hotel) ❍ No 10 (Downing Street) (ie the official residence of the British Prime Minister).
၂။ (US) NORTH; NORTHERN

no /nǝƱ/ neg det

၁။ မည်သည့်…မျှ။ No words can express my grief. ❍ No student is to leave the room. ❍ There was no bread left in the supermarket. ❍ No two people think exactly alike.
၂။ …ခွင့်မပြု။ No smoking. ❍ No dogs in the restaurant.
၃။ (ပဋိသေဓပုဒ်) မ။ It was no easy matter (ie It was very difficult). ❍ She's no fool (ie She is intelligent).
interj (ငြင်းပယ်စကားလုံး)။ မ။ ‘Would you like a drink?’ ‘No, thank you. ’ ❍ ‘Is it raining?’ ‘No, it isn't. ’ ❍ ‘Haven't you finished?’ ‘No, not yet. ’
neg adv
(used before comparative adjs and advs ) (မဟုတ်၊ မရှိ၊ မဖြစ်ကြောင်းပြ စကားလုံး)။ This book is no more exciting than his others. ❍ If you're no better by tomorrow I'll call the doctor.
❏ no-ball n
(ခရစ်ကက်) စနစ်မမှန်၍ တစ်ဖက်က အမှတ်ရသည့် ဘောလုံးပစ်ပေးပုံ။
❏ no-claims bonus n (Brit ) ယမန်နှစ်က အာမခံ လျော်ကြေး တောင်းခဲ့ခြင်းမရှိ၍ ယခုနှစ်၌ အာမခံကြေးလျှော့ခြင်း။ lose one's no-claims bonus.
❏ noes /nǝƱz/ n
[pl] ကန့်ကွက်သူများ။ လက်မခံသူများ။ The noes have it (ie Those voting 'no' are in the majority).
❏ no-fault adj
(US ) ကားတိုက်မှုဖြစ်သောအခါ မည်သူ့အမှား ဖြစ်ကြောင်း အဆုံးအဖြတ် မစောင့်ဘဲ အာမခံကြေး ထုတ်ပေးသော (ကားအာမခံစနစ်)။
❏ no-go area n
မြို့ကြီးပြကြီးများတွင် ရဲနှင့်စစ်တပ် မဝင်ရ ကန့်သတ်နယ်မြေ။
❏ no-hoper n
(infml derog ) အလကားကောင်။ a bunch of no-hopers running the country.
❏ no man's land n
[U] (တိုင်းပြည်နှစ်ခုကြား၊ စစ်နှစ်ဖက် ကြားရှိ) စပ်ကြားနယ်မြေ။ ပိုင်သူမဲ့နယ်မြေ။
❏ no-nonsense adj ရှင်းရှင်းပြတ်ပြတ်။
a no-nonsense approach/ attitude/ manner.
❏ no one neg pron = NOBODY
❏ no-show n (infml ) ပေါ်မလာသူ။

More examples

‘Are you still working at the clinic?’ ‘No, I work at the hospital now.’
‘Haven’t we met before?’ ‘No, I don’t think so.’
‘Do you want another cup of coffee?’ ‘No, thanks. I’ve had enough.’
[say no] : I’m sorry, but I’ll have to say no this time.
[the answer is no] : For the last time, the answer is no!
‘You’re always blaming me whenever something goes wrong.’ ‘No, I’m not.’
‘Kate is Dave’s sister.’ ‘No, she’s not – they’re cousins.’
‘Don’t forget to make the reservation’. ‘No, I won’t’.
‘We’re not as young as we used to be’. ‘No, we’re certainly not’.
‘He drank five pints of beer in an hour.’ ‘No! Really?’
There’s absolutely no reason to get up early tomorrow morning.
I have no living cousins that I know about.
He had been given almost no opportunity to practise.
There was no hospital in the town.
There’s no time to stop and talk.
I can’t pay – I’ve no money.
No smoking.
She had completely ignored the ‘No Entry’ sign.
No! Don’t touch that, it’s hot.
It is no surprise that the company failed.
I’m no expert on Japan, but I feel sure the economy will improve dramatically.
He’s no fool – he can see what you’re trying to do.
Getting the two men to sit down together and talk was no small achievement.
After the argument he stopped speaking to me, but actually it was no great loss.

Synonyms

Antonyms

acceptably, all right, aye, passably, tolerably, unobjectionably, very well, well enough, without a doubt, without doubt, yes