Dictionary entry

Characteristic

Pronunciation: /karəktəˈrɪstɪk/

Pronunciation

/karəktəˈrɪstɪk/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) ထူးခြား သောပင်ကိုလက္ခဏာ။ (n) ထူးခြားသော လက္ခဏာ။

Definition

characteristic /kærǝktǝ'rÇstÇk/ adj ~ (of sb/sth) ထူးျခား ေသာပင္ကိုလကၡဏာ။ She spoke with characteristic enthusiasm. ❍ Such bluntness is characteristic of him. n ထူးျခားေသာ လကၡဏာ။ What characteristics distinguish the Americans from the Canadians? ❍ Arrogance is one of his less attractive characteristics. ❏ characteristically adv ထူးထူးျခားျခား။ Characteristically she took the joke very well. ❍ He made a characteristically witty speech.

Examples

  1. In the future parents may be able to choose their children’s physical characteristics.
  2. [the main/defining/distinguishing characteristic] : A purple rash is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the disease.