Dictionary entry

Justified

Pronunciation: /ˈdʒʌstɪfʌɪd/

Pronunciation

/ˈdʒʌstɪfʌɪd/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) ခိုင်လုံ (v[pt]) တရားမျှတကြောင်းပြခဲ့ (v[pp]) တရားမျှတကြောင်းပြခဲ့ပြီး

Definition

justify / 'dʒʌstÇfaÇ / v ( pt, pp -fied ) ၁။ (က) မွန္ကန္၊ တရား မွ်တေၾကာင္းျပသည္။ Her success has clearly justified their early faith in her. ❍ His present form scarcely justifies his being chosen for the team. (ခ) အက်ဳိးသင့္ အေၾကာင္းသင့္ ရွင္းျပသည္။ ရွင္းခ်က္ထုတ္သည္။ seek to justify a massive jump in prices ❍ How can they justify closing down/ the decision to close down the youth club? ၂။ ေလ်ာ္ကန္သည္။ သင့္ျမတ္သည္။ Tiredness cannot possibly justify such behaviour. ၃။ စာေၾကာင္း ညိႇေပးသည္။ justified margins. ❏ in justification (for/ of sb/sth) [ IDM ] ကာကြယ္ ေသာ အားျဖင့္။ All I can say in justification of his actions is that his children were hungry and sick. ❏ justifiable /'dʒʌstÇfaÇǝbl, dʒʌstÇ'faÇǝbl / adj အေၾကာင္း ခိုင္လံုေသာ။ ေလ်ာ္ကန္ေသာ။ justifiable fear/ complaints/ pride ❍ His actions were illegal but justifiable on moral grounds. ❏ justifiably / -ǝbli / adv သင့္တင့္ေလ်ာက္ပတ္စြာ။ ဆီေလ်ာ္စြာ။ ထိုက္သည့္အားေလ်ာ္စြာ။ be justifiably cautious/ nervous/ proud ❍ The public can, quite justifiably, demand an explanation. ❏ justification / dʒʌstÇfÇ'keÇʃn / n [U,C] ~ (for sth/ doing sth) က်ဳိးေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္။ I can see no possible justification for any further tax increases. ❍ He was getting angry __ and with some justification. ❍ REASON n ❏ justified adj ၁ ။ ~ (in doing sth) တရားေသာ။ She felt fully/ entirely justified in asking for her money back. ၂။ ခိုင္လံုေသာ။ His fears proved justified. ❍ Their caution does not seem altogether justified.

Examples

  1. You’ll be expected to justify your actions.
  2. It was becoming increasingly difficult to justify such expenditure.
  3. [justify doing something] : How can people justify spending so much money on cosmetics?
  4. Nothing can justify what happened this morning.