surprisingly

/səˈprʌɪzɪŋli/

US pronunciation

American sound/səˈprʌɪzɪŋli/

səˈprʌɪzɪŋli

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

sə - ˈprʌɪzɪŋli -> surprisingly

Myanmar meaning

(adv) အံ့ဩစရာကောင်းတာက

Full entry

surprise /sǝ'praÇz/ n

(က) [U] အံ့အားသင့်ခြင်း။ အံ့ဩခြင်း။ အံ့ ဖွယ်။ Their defeat caused little surprise (ie was expected). ❍ To my surprise, the plan succeeded. ❍ They lost, much to our surprise. ❍ Imagine our surprise on seeing her there. ❍ She looked up in surprise when I shouted. ❍ He expressed surprise that no one had offered to help.
(ခ) [C] အသစ်အဆန်း။ အငိုက်ဖမ်းခြင်း။ မျှော်လင့်မထားသည့် အရာ။ What a nice surprise! ❍ There were few surprises in the Chancellor's budget speech. ❍ Her letter came as a complete surprise (to me). ❍ He likes springing surprises on people. ❍ a surprise visit/ attack/ party.
v
၁။ အံ့ဩသည်။ အံ့အားသင့်သည်။ She's over 80? You surprise me! ❍ She was rather surprised by his rude behaviour. ❍ It wouldn't surprise me/ I wouldn't be surprised if they got married soon. ❍ Would it surprise you to know that I'm thinking of leaving?
၂။ ရုတ်တရက် တိုက်ခိုက်သည်။ စီးနင်းသည်။ အငိုက်ဖမ်းသည်။ surprise the opposition
(ie attack them when they are not prepared) ❍ We came home early and surprised a burglar trying to break in.
❏ surprise, surprise [IDM ](infml often ironic ) (အံ့ဖွယ် အဖြစ်သုံးသည့် စကား)။ Surprise, surprise! I've bought you a present! ဟော…ဟောဒီမှာ မင်းအတွက် လက်ဆောင်။ ❍ One of the candidates was the manager's niece, and surprise, surprise, (ie as one would expect) she got the job. အလုပ်လျှောက်တဲ့အထဲမှာ မန်နေဂျာတူမပါလေတော့ အံ့ဖွယ်သရဲ သူပဲ ရသွားတာပေါ့။
❏ surprised adj ~ (at/ by sth/ sb) အံ့ဩသော။ အံ့အားသင့် သော။ wearing a surprised look on his face ❍ We were very surprised at the news. ❍ I'm surprised at you, behaving like that in front of the children. ❍ She was very surprised to see him there. ❍ I'm surprised (that) he didn't come. ❍ He was rather surprised by her reply. ❍ It's nothing to be surprised about.
❏ surprising adj အံ့ဖွယ်။ မမျှော်လင့်သော။
a surprising result ❍ It's (hardly) surprising (that) they lost. ❍ A surprising number of people came.
❏ surprisingly adv အံ့ဩစရာကောင်းတာက။ အံ့ဩစရာ ကောင်းလောက်အောင်။ Surprisingly, no one came. ❍ She looked surprisingly well.
❏ take sb/ sth by surprise [IDM ] စီးနင်းတိုက်ခိုက်သည်။ အငိုက်ဖမ်းသည်။ The town was well defended so there was little chance of taking it by surprise.
❏ take sb by surprise [IDM ] အငိုက်ဖမ်းသည်။ အငိုက် မိသည်။ Her sudden resignation took us all by surprise.

More examples

There were few surprises at Wimbledon this year.
[come as a surprise] : Holman’s arrest came as a surprise to the entire community.
[come as no surprise] : Given the dismal sales performance, the change of management came as no surprise.
[surprises in store] : Let’s hope there are no more unpleasant surprises in store for us.
[be in for a surprise] : The players could be in for a surprise if they expect an easy victory.
I never knew Sheila had been married – that was a real surprise.
Henderson led the team to a surprise win in the final.
They keep the room ready for surprise visitors.
Many students expressed surprise at the news.
[(much) to someone’s surprise] : Much to my surprise, the restaurant was actually very nice.
I got you a little surprise for your birthday.

Synonyms

shock, revelation, bolt from the blue, disclosure, bombshell, blow, shocker, 3-D, abruptness, alarm, amaze, amazement, ambush, astonish, astonishment, astound, astoundment, attack, awe, bewilder, bewilderment, blow away, bowl over, burst in on, bushwhack, capture, catch in the act, catch napping, catch off-balance, catch off-guard, catch red-handed, catch unawares, cause wonder, come down on, come upon, confound, confuse, consternate, consternation, curiosity, curveball, daze, dazzle, disappointment, disbelief, discomfit, disconcert, discover, disillusion, dismay, disrupt, disturb, drop in on, dumbfound, electrify, epiphany, eureka, eye-opener, flabbergast, floor, fortune, from left field, godsend, grab, grasp, incredulity, interrupt, intrude on, jar, jolt, kick, knock for six, lay for, leave aghast, leave open-mouthed, lie in wait, marvel, miracle, miscalculation, nab, nonplus, not bargained for, overwhelm, perplex, petrify, phenomenon, pop-up, portent, precipitance, precipitation, precipitousness, prodigy, rarity, rattle, render speechless, rock, secret, seize, shake up, spring on, spring something on, stagger, start, startle, strike dumb, strike with awe, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, suddenness, take, take aback, take by surprise, take one's breath away, take the wind out of your sails, throw a curve, thunderbolt, unannounced, unanticipated, uncalculated, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked for, unlooked-for, unsettle, unsuspected, waylay, whammy, wonder, wonderment

Antonyms

bore, calm, calmness, clarify, clear up, comfort, compose, composure, coolness, enlighten, expect, expectation, explain, free, give, happiness, indifference, let go, liberate, lose, misunderstand, offer, order, release, soothe