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respectful

/rɪˈspɛk(t)fʊl/

US pronunciation
American sound/rɪˈspɛk(t)fʊl/
rɪˈspɛktfʊl
Syllables
3 syllables
Stress
2nd syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

rɪ - ˈspɛktfʊl -> respectful

Myanmar meaning

လေးစားမှုကို ပြသသော။

Full entry

respectful /rÇ'spektfl/ adj

~ (to/ towards sb);~ (of sth)
အလေးထားသော။ ရိုသေလေးစားသော။ သင့်တင့်လျောက်ပတ် သော။
respectful of other people's opinions ❍ The crowd listened in respectful silence. ❍ We stood at a respectful distance as the funeral procession went by. Compare DISRESPECTFUL
❏ respectfully /-fǝli/ adv ရိုသေစွာ။ လေးစားစွာ။ လေးလေး စားစား။

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  • respectful /rÇ'spektfl/ adj ~ (to/ towards sb);~ (of sth) အလေးထားသော။ ရိုသေလေးစားသော။ သင့်တင့်လျောက်ပတ် သော။ respectful of other people's opinions
  • The crowd listened in respectful silence.
  • We stood at a respectful distance as the funeral procession went by. Compare DISRESPECTFUL ❏ respectfully /-fǝli/ adv ရိုသေစွာ။ လေးစားစွာ။ လေးလေး စားစား။
Synonyms
deferential, reverential, reverent, admiring, appreciative, civil, considerate, courteous, courtly, duteous, dutiful, gracious, humble, mannerly, obedient, obeisant, polite, recognizing, regardful, regarding, self-effacing, solicitous, submissive, upholding, venerating, well-mannered
Antonyms
discourteous, disobedient, disrespectful, impolite, inconsiderate, insolent, mean, rude, unkind, unmannerly, unrefined
Cross references
deferentialreverentialreverentadmiringappreciativecivilconsideratecourteouscourtlyduteousdutifulgracioushumblemannerlyobedientobeisantpoliterecognizingregardfulregardingself-effacingsolicitoussubmissiveupholdingveneratingwell-mannereddiscourteousdisobedient
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