Dictionary entry

Sternly

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Definition

stern 1 / stɜ:n / adj (-er,-est) (က) တင္းမာေသာ။ ခက္ထန္ေသာ။ a stern face/expression/voice ❍ a stern warning/message ❍ Her father looked rather stern. (ခ) ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ တင္းက်ပ္ေသာ။ The police are planning sterner measures to combat crime. ❏ be made of sterner stuff [ IDM ] ႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ၊ မဆုတ္ မနစ္ျပဳတတ္ေသာ၊ မေလွ်ာ့ေသာ (ဇြဲ၊ လံု႔လ၊ စိတ္ဓာတ္)။ Many would have given up, but Tim was made of sterner stuff. ❏ sternly adv မ်က္ႏွာထားတင္းတင္းျဖင့္။ ‘Do as I say,’ she said sternly. ❏ sternness n [U] ခက္ထန္ျခင္း။ ထန္ျခင္း။ stern 2 /stɜ:n/ n [C] ေလွ၊ သေဘၤာပဲ့ပိုင္း။ ပဲ့။ standing at/in the stern of the boat ❍ walk towards the stern of a ship. Compare BOW 3 ❍ YACHT

Examples

  1. A smile suddenly transformed her stern face.
  2. The court issued a stern warning to the driver.
  3. The president was prepared to resort to stern measures to get his way.