Dictionary entry

Insulting

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsʌltɪŋ/

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈsʌltɪŋ/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) စော်ကား (v[ing]) စော်ကားနေ

Definition

insult /Çn'sʌlt/ v ေစာ္ကားသည္။ I felt deeply insulted by her patronizing attitude. /'Çnsʌlt/ n ~ (to sb/ sth) ဆဲေရးျခင္း။ ေစာ္ကားမႈ။ She hurled insults at the unfortunate waiter. ❍ The questions were a real insult to our intelligence (ie too easy). ❏ insulting adj (က) ေစာ္ကားေသာ။ ေစာ္ကားေမာ္ကား။ insulting remarks/ behaviour. (ခ) ေစာ္ကားေသာ။ ႐ိုင္းေသာ။ ႐ိုင္းပ်ေသာ။ He was most insulting to my wife.

Examples

  1. [throw/hurl insults at someone] : He stormed off the pitch
  2. hurling insults at the umpire.
  3. [be an insult to] : Such low wages are an insult to hard-working employees.
  4. This exam is an insult to students’ intelligence.