Dictionary entry
Mostly
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊs(t)li/
Pronunciation
/ˈməʊs(t)li/
Myanmar Meaning
(adv) အဓိကအားဖြင့်
Definition
most /mǝƱst / indef det, indef pron (used as the superlative of MANY, MUCH adv ) ၁။ အမ်ားဆံုး။ (က) ( det ): Who do you think will get (the) most votes? ❍ Peter made the most mistakes of all the class. ❍ When we toured Italy we spent most time in Rome. ❍ Most racial discrimination is based on ignorance. (ခ) ( pron ): We all ate a lot of cake—I probably ate (the) most (ie more than the others ate). ❍ Harry got 6 points, Susan got 8 points, but Alison got most (with 12). ❍ The person with the most to lose is the director. ❍ That's the most I can do to help. ❍ MUCH indef det, indef pron ၂။ ထက္ဝက္ေက်ာ္။ အမ်ားစု။ (က) ( det ): Most European countries are democracies. ❍ Most classical music sends me to sleep. ❍ The new tax laws affect most people. ❍ I like most vegetables. (ခ) ( pron ) အမ်ားစု။ အမ်ားအား ျဖင့္။ It rained for most of the summer. ❍ As most of you know, I've decided to resign. ❍ There are hundreds of verbs in English and most are regular. ❍ He spends most of his free time in the garden. adv ၁။ (က) အလြန္႔အလြန္။ သိပ္။ most boring/beautiful/impressive ❍ The person who gave most generously to the appeal was my father. ❍ It was the most exciting trip I've ever had. (ခ) အမ်ားဆံုး။ အထူးတလည္။ What did you most enjoy? ❍ She helped me (the) most when my parents died. ❍ I saw her most (ie most often) when we were at college together. ၂။ (က) အလြန္။ အလြန္အမင္း။ We heard a most interesting talk about Japan. ❍ I received a most unusual present from my aunt. ❍ It was most kind of you to take me to the airport. ❍ We shall most probably never meet again. (ခ) သိပ္။ ‘Can we expect to see you at church?’ ‘Most certainly. ’ ၃။ ( infml esp US ) လုနီးပါး။ လိုလို။ I go to the store most every day. ❏ at (the) most [ IDM ] အစြမ္းကုန္။ အမ်ားဆံုး။ At (the) most I might earn £250 a night. ❍ There were 50 people there, at the very most. ❍ As a news item it merits a short paragraph at most. ❏ mostly adv အဓိကအားျဖင့္။ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္။ The drink was mostly lemonade. ❍ We're mostly out on Sundays. -most suff (ေနရာျပဝိဘတ္ႏွင့္ နာမဝိေသသနတို႔ျဖင့္ နာမဝိေသသန ဖြဲ႕ရာ၌ သံုးသည့္ ေနာက္ဆက္)။ …ဆံုး။ inmost ❍ topmost ❍ uppermost.
Examples
- Zurich is Switzerland’s most important city.
- Even the most carefully prepared plans sometimes go wrong.
- The English Patient was one of the most successful films ever made.
- Who do you think is most likely to win the next presidential election?
- [the most] : My time in the navy was by far the most exciting period of my life.
- Most people think of robots as machines that look like people.
- Most business meetings are held at the company’s Bristol office.
- A few of the moths are grey
- but most are white.
- [most of] : Most of us enjoy shopping.
- Johnson spent most of his life in London.
- [most days/evenings/weekends etc] : We go sailing most weekends.
- [most of the time] : Most of the time we sit around playing cards.
- The fairest system is one where those who earn most pay most tax.
- [the most] : It’s a competition to see who could drink the most beer in the shortest time.
- [the most] : The most that we can do is to prevent the situation from getting any worse.
- To get the most benefit from your training programme
- read all the documentation carefully.
- We chose the option that would help the most people.
- [the most] : The university course that has changed the most in the last ten years is teacher education.
- [most of all] : What I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl.
- [the most] : It was Auntie Margaret who complained the most.
- We spent a most enjoyable afternoon at the races.
- The landscapes are most beautifully painted in oils.
- The iced tea was very sweet
- as it is most everywhere in the South.