questionable

/ˈkwɛstʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈkwɛstʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l/

questionable

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

ques - tio - nab - le -> questionable

Myanmar meaning

(adj) စဉ်းစားဖွယ်ရာ။ သံသယဖြစ်ဖွယ်ရာ။ မရိုးသားသော။ မဖွယ်မရာ။

Full entry

question / 'kwestʃǝn / n

၁။ [C] မေးခွန်း။ ပုစ္ဆာ။ ask a lot of questions ❍ Question 3 is quite difficult. ❍ I will be happy to answer questions at the end. ❍ I'd like to put a question to the speaker.
၂။ [C] ~ (of sth) ပြဿနာ။ ကိစ္စ။ What about the question of security? ❍ I've got the job. Now it's a question of finding somewhere to live. ❍ This raises the question of how we finance the project. ❍ I'm afraid he's dying ^__ it's merely a question of time. သူ ဒီတောင်က ကျော်နိုင်မယ် မထင်ဘူး၊ နေ့လား ညလားပဲ။
၃။ [U] သံသယ။ အငြင်းပွားဖွယ်။ There is no/ some question about his honesty. ❍ Her sincerity is beyond question. ❍ His suitability for the post is open to question.
v
၁။ ~ sb (about/ on sth) စုံစမ်းမေးမြန်းသည်။ They questioned her closely about her previous job. ❍ He was questioned by the police for six hours. ❍ Of those questioned, over 50% said they knew they should take more exercise.
၂။ ယုံမှားသံသယဖြစ်သည်။ မသင်္ကာဖြစ်သည်။ Her loyalty has never been questioned. ❍ I just accepted what he said^__ I never thought to question it. ❍ He also questioned whether it was solely the lorry driver's fault.
❏ bring sth/ come into question [IDM ] မေးရန်ရှိ သည်။ စဉ်းစားစရာရှိသည်။ It does bring into question the whole purpose of the Nato alliance. ❍ Sunday trading laws came into question again recently.
❏ in question [IDM ]
၁။ ရည်ညွှန်းပါ။ အဆိုပါ။ The woman in question is sitting over there. ခုန ပြောတဲ့မိန်းမဟာ ဟိုမှာထိုင်နေတယ်။ ❍ The job in question is available for three months only.
၂။ မရေမရာ။ စဉ်းစား ဖွယ်ရာ။ The future of public transport is now in question.
❏ out of the question [IDM ] စဉ်းစားစရာမလို။ A new bicycle is out of the question ^__ we can't afford it.
❏ questionable adj
၁။ စဉ်းစားဖွယ်ရာ။ သံသယဖြစ်ဖွယ်ရာ။ a questionable assumption/ decision/ result ❍ It is questionable how necessary the changes are.
၂။ မရိုးသားသော။ မဖွယ်မရာ။ questionable earnings ❍ a questionable lifestyle. questionably / -ǝbli / adv
❏ questioner n (စကားရည်လုပွဲ၊ ဆွေးနွေးပွဲ စသည်တွင်) မေးခွန်းထုတ်သူ၊ စောဒကတက်သူ။
❏ questioning n [U] စစ်ဆေးမေးမြန်းခြင်း။ စစ်ကြော ခြင်း။ be subjected to hostile/ persistent questioning ❍ The police brought him in for questioning.
❏ questioningly adv မယုံသင်္ကာသည့် ဟန်ဖြင့်။ look at sb questioningly ❍ raise an eyebrow questioningly.
❏ question mark n (က) မေးခွန်းသင်္ကေတ။ (?)။ (ခ) ယုံမှားသံသယဖြစ်ခြင်း၊ ရှိခြင်း။ There's a question mark against his name ^__ I'm not convinced he's really the right man for the job.
❏ question-master (also esp US quiz-master ) n (ရေဒီယိုရုပ်သံပဟေဠိဖြေဆိုပွဲ၌) မေးခွန်းမေးသူ။
❏ question time n [U] ပါလီမန်အမတ်များ၏ မေးခွန်းများကို ဝန်ကြီးများကဖြေဆိုခန်း။
❏ there is, was, etc some/ no question of [IDM ] အကြောင်းကိစ္စပေါ်ပေါက်သည် (သို့) အကြောင်းမရှိ။ There was some question of selling the business. ❍ There is no question of anyone being made redundant.

More examples

[answer a question] : Why won’t you answer my question?
[ask a question] : I regretted asking the question as soon as the words were out.
[rephrase a question] : Perhaps I ought to rephrase the question.
[evade/sidestep a question] : Politicians have a habit of evading difficult questions.
[awkward question] : Children are always asking awkward questions about the facts of life.
[a searching/probing question] : Probing questions about my health
[answer a question] : Only one person answered all three questions correctly.
[raise a question] : Recent incidents are bound to raise questions about the level of violence in football.
[address/tackle/resolve a question] : His report did not address the question of air warfare.
[vexed question] : The vexed question of the national minimum wage
[question over/as to/about] : There had been some question as to whether to interview the boy.
[raise questions] : This information began to raise questions in her mind about Jack’s innocence.

Synonyms

query, inquiry, Q and A, anxiety, argument, ask, ask about, call into question, cast doubt on, cast doubt upon, catechism, catechize, challenge, confusion, contention, controversy, controvert, cross-examine, debate, demand, demur, demurral, difficulty, disbelieve, discussion, dispute, distrust, doubt, dubiety, enigma, enquire, examination, examine, give the third degree, go over, grill, have reservations about, hesitate, hesitation, hit, hit up, hold out for, impeach, impugn, inquest, inquire, inquiring, inquisition, interrogate, interrogation, interrogatory, interview, investigate, investigation, issue, knock, look into, make inquiry, matter, misgiving, mistrust, motion, mystery, objection, oppose, petition, pick one's brains, point, point at issue, poll, probe, problem, proposal, proposition, protest, pry, pump, put through the wringer, put to the question, puzzle, puzzle over, quest, question mark, questioning, quiz, raise question, remonstrance, remonstration, request, reservation, roast, search, seek, show curiosity, solicit, sound out, subject, suspect, suspicion, sweat it out of, theme, third degree, topic, uncertainty, wonder about, work over, wringer

Antonyms

acceptance, agreement, answer, believe, calm, certainty, concord, doubtlessness, find, harmony, reply, resolution, sureness, surety, trust