Dictionary entry

Bluntness

Pronunciation: /ˈblʌntnəs/

Pronunciation

/ˈblʌntnəs/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) ပြောင်ပြောင်ဘွင်းဘွင်း ပြောခြင်း။တုံးခြင်း။

Definition

blunt /blʌnt/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ တံုးေသာ။ မခြၽန္ေသာ။ မထက္ေသာ။ a blunt knife/saw/pencil ❍ Police said he had been battered with a blunt instrument, possibly a hammer. ၂။ တဲ့တိုး။ တံုးတိ။ ေျဗာင္။ a blunt refusal ❍ Let me be quite blunt (with you)—your work is appalling. v ၁။ တံုးသည္။ တံုးေစသည္။ a knife blunted by years of use. ၂။ (အရည္အေသြး၊ ထိေရာက္မႈ) ေလ်ာ့ပါးေစသည္။ a fine mind blunted by boredom ❍ The impact of the report will be severely blunted by this latest news. ❏ bluntly adv ဘြင္းဘြင္း။ တဲ့တိုး။ To put it bluntly, your work isn't good enough. bluntness n [U]

Examples

  1. It was a frank answer to a blunt question.
  2. [let’s be blunt] : Let’s be blunt – younger people will not buy this car.
  3. A blunt pencil/razor