Dictionary entry
Faintly
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪntli/
Pronunciation
/ˈfeɪntli/
Myanmar Meaning
(adv) ယဲ့ယဲ့။ နည်းနည်း။ not have the faintest/foggiest (idea) [idm] (infml) ရေးရေးမျှမသိ။ လုံးဝမသိပါ။
Definition
faint / feÇnt / adj (-er, -est) ၁။ မိွန္ေသာ။ အားနည္းေသာ။ တိမ္ သြားေသာ။ (သင္း) ပ်ပ်။ (ညီႇ) စို႔စို႔။ a faint glow/glimmer ❍ a faint smell of perfume ❍ We saw the faint outline of the mountain through the mist. ❍ The sounds of music grew fainter and fainter. ၂။ (က) အားနည္းေသာ။ အား ေပ်ာ့ေသာ။ in a faint voice ❍ His breathing became faint. (ခ) မူးေမ့မလိုျဖစ္ [ေသာ]။ မူးေဝ [ေသာ]။ She suddenly felt faint. (ဂ) အားနည္းေမာပန္းေသာ။ အားအင္ခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့ေသာ။ The explorers were faint from hunger and cold. ၃။ ေရးေရးမွ် ရိွေသာ။ There is still a faint hope/chance that she may be cured. ၄။ စိတ္မပါေသာ။ a faint show of resistance. v သတိလစ္သည္။ Do not bend over suddenly because this can cause fainting or dizziness. ❍ He fainted from hunger. n [sing] သတိလစ္ျခင္း။ She fell to the ground in a (dead) faint. ❏ the faint-hearted n [pl v ] သူရဲေဘာနည္းသူ။ The 130-mile ride is not for the faint-hearted. ❏ faint-hearted adj သူရဲေဘာနည္းေသာ။ ❏ faintly adv ယဲ့ယဲ့။ နည္းနည္း။ She smiled faintly. ❍ I was faintly alarmed to hear this. faintness n [U] ❏ not have the faintest/foggiest (idea) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေရးေရးမွ်မသိ။ လံုးဝမသိပါ။ ‘Do you know where she is ?’ ‘Sorry, I haven't the faintest.
Examples
- He could see the faint glow of a lamp through the curtains.
- His voice was so faint as to be almost inaudible.
- The faint scent of woodsmoke
- Her memories of her father were very faint.
- She shrugged
- forcing a faint smile.
- He looked around the room in the faint hope that Sam might suddenly appear.
- Dan suddenly felt faint.