unsocial

/ʌnˈsəʊʃ(ə)l/

US pronunciation

American sound/ʌnˈsəʊʃ(ə)l/

ʌnˈsəʊʃəl

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

ʌn - ˈsəʊʃəl -> unsocial

Myanmar meaning

လူမှုရေး ဆက်ဆံမှု မရှိသော။ အသိုက်အဝန်းနှင့် မသင့်လျော်သော၊ အသိုက်အဝန်းကို မရှာဖွေသော။ ပုံမှန် အလုပ်လုပ်သည့် နေ့မှ တခြားဖြစ်သော။ အပေါင်းအသင်း မဆံ့သော။

Full entry

unsocial /ʌn'sǝƱʃl / adj

၁။ ပုံမှန်အလုပ်ချိန်မဟုတ်သော။ work unsocial hours.
၂။ = UNSOCIABLE

More examples

‘He argued that most consultants already work unsocial hours, but this is not written down in their agreements, nor is it properly resourced.’
‘In essence, the new contract offered more money in return for accepting greater managerial control and the potential to be obliged to work unsocial hours.’
‘Carers therefore often have little control over the amount of time they work, and many care agencies do not pay more for these unsocial hours.’
‘We are regularly told of the acute shortage of surgeons and nurses: could the health trust find the extra medical expertise, willing to work unsocial hours, it would require?’
‘Many social workers work unsocial hours and work incredibly hard.’
‘They are also angered at delays to carry out reviews of pay levels for work at unsocial hours and weekends and the withholding of additional payments.’
‘The fare rises are being introduced to encourage taxi drivers to work during unsocial hours.’
‘The pay was low and the hours were often unsocial.’
‘I was disappointed to see very few (if any) contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings.’
‘Staff are often parents who work unsocial hours to allow stores to open whenever is most convenient to customers.’
‘Many young journalists, or student journalists, work unsocial hours at rates of pay that have not increased for at least four years.’
‘Working long and unsocial hours is a ‘requirement of the job rather than a choice’, according to 75 percent of mothers surveyed.’
‘A majority of mothers and 79 per cent of fathers frequently work at unsocial hours.’
‘They want a lot more from these talks, especially on issues like unsocial hours premiums, which under the current proposals would make them worse off.’
‘The introduction of new lower rates of pay for working unsocial hours, which would have been a major cause of workers being worse off, has been postponed until April 2006.’
‘The driver goes out in the foulest weather conditions at the most unsocial hours to keep us safe.’
‘Furthermore, better unsocial hours patient care is surely likely when provided by dedicated night shift doctors instead of GPs dragged back out of bed after a day of surgeries and home visits?’
‘They work long and often unsocial hours, take public responsibility and face many stressful situations which other groups of workers rarely do.’
‘Many of these are women and black workers in low status, low paid jobs with unsocial hours.’
‘The defendant had put nearly £20, 000, his life savings, into the post office believing he would ultimately become a partner but he worked long unsocial hours and was not rewarded.’

Synonyms

abandoned, afraid, alone, aloof, antagonistic, antisocial, apart, apathetic, apprehensive, averse, backward, bashful, blasÃ©, brooding, by oneself, callous, cautious, chary, circumspect, cloistered, cold, comfortless, companionless, conscious, cool, coy, demure, deserted, desolate, destitute, detached, diffident, disconsolate, disinclined, disinterested, dispassionate, distant, distrustful, down, easy-going, empty, equitable, eremetic, estranged, fearful, feeling friendless, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, godforsaken, haughty, heartless, heedless, hermitical, hesitant, hidden, highbrow, homeless, hostile, humble, impartial, impervious, inaccessible, inattentive, indisposed, individual, inhospitable, introvert, introverted, isolated, laid-back, left, listless, loath, lone, lonely, loner, lonesome, lorn, misanthropic, modest, nervous, neutral, nonchalant, nongregarious, nonpartisan, objective, offish, only, out-of-the-way, outcast, particular, passionless, phlegmatic, recessive, reclusive, regardless, rejected, reluctant, remote, renounced, reserved, reticent, retired, retiring, scornful, secluded, secretive, self-effacing, sensitive, separate, sequestered, shamefaced, sheepish, shrinking, shy, silent, single, single; unsociable, singular, skittish, sole, solitary, solo, stag, standoffish, stoical, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, suspicious, timid, troglodytic, unaccompanied, unapproachable, unaroused, unassertive, unassured, unattended, unbefriended, unbending, unbiased, uncaring, uncherished, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconcerned, uncongenial, uneager, uneffusive, unemotional, unfeeling, unforthcoming, unfrequented, unfriendly, unimpressed, uninterested, uninvolved, unique, unmoved

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