Rather

Definition

rather /'rɑ:ðǝ(r); US 'ræðǝr/ adv ၁။ (က) ေတာ္ေတာ္။ It's rather cold outside. ❍ The instructions were rather complicated. ❍ She fell and hurt her leg rather badly. ❍ I didn't fail the exam; in fact I did rather well! ❍ This hotel is rather more expensive than the others. ❍ The patient has responded to the treatment rather better than expected. (ခ) (used before too) ေတာ္ေတာ္။ I tried the trousers on, but they were rather too big for me. ❍ He spoke rather too quickly for me to understand. ၂။ (က) (used before a, the and like) ခပ္။ It seems rather a good idea. ❍ It's rather a shame that Anne missed the concert. ❍ Alan looks rather like his mother. (ခ) (used before a v ) ေတာ္ေတာ္။ I rather suspect we're making a big mistake. ❍ We were rather hoping you'd be free on Friday. ❍ He rather resented having to do Jane's work as well as his own. ❍ fairly ၃။ (က) အတိအက်ဆိုရရင္ ေတာ့။ She worked as a secretary, or rather, a personal assistant. ❍ In the end he had to walk—or rather run—to the office. (ခ) တကယ္တမ္းကေတာ့။ The walls were not white, but rather a sort of dirty grey. /also rɑ:'ðɜ:(r)/ interj ( dated Brit ) ေကာင္းတာေပါ့။ မွန္တာေပါ့။ ‘How about a trip to the coast?’ ‘Rather!’ ❏ rather than prep မည့္အစား။ ထက္။ I think I'll have a cold drink rather than coffee. ❍ It's management that's at fault rather than the workforce. ❍ Why didn't you ask for help, rather than trying to do it on your own? ❏ rather you, him, etc than me [ IDM ] ( infml ) …ပဲလုပ္၊ ငါ့ေတာ့ အသာထားစမ္းပါ။ ‘I'm going climbing tomorrow. ’ ‘Rather you than me!’ ❏ [ IDM ] (usu shortened to 'd rather)… (ထက္) … ကိုလိုလားသည္။ She'd rather die than lose the childen. ❍ Would you rather walk or take the bus? ❍ ‘Do you mind if I smoke?’ ‘Well, I'd rather you didn't. ’

Examples

1. Some rather nice chocolate biscuits
2. He was rather a handsome boy.
3. I realize that I’ve been rather stupid and selfish.
4. Matt left rather suddenly without any explanation.
5. [rather more/better/worse/bigger etc] : The problem is rather more complicated than we had expected.
6. Don’t you think she’s rather young to be travelling abroad on her own?
7. It’s a good essay
8. but rather long.
9. [rather too] : Toby had drunk rather too much.
10. The purpose of Paxton’s book was not to make accusations. Rather
11. it was to provide information on which accusations might be based.
12. Our aim was not to punish the rich
13. but rather to bring justice to the poor.
14. [or rather] : He couldn’t help us
15. or rather he didn’t want to.
16. Who is Fred anyway
17. or rather who was he?