Dictionary entry

Contritely

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Myanmar Meaning

(adv) ကြေကွဲစွာ။

Definition

contrite /'kɒntraÇt, kǝn'traÇt/ adj ( fml ) ေနာင္တရေသာ။ a contrite apology/ manner ❍ Gloria looked contrite, even distressed. contritely adv ❏ contrition /kǝn'trÇʃn/ n [U] ေနာင္တ။ ေနာင္တပူပန္။ tears of contrition. ❏ contrivance /kǝn'traÇvǝns/ n ( fml ) ၁။ [C] ႀကံဖန္ တီထြင္ထားေသာ ကိရိယာ၊ တန္ဆာပလာ။ a contrivance for cutting curved shapes. ၂။ [U] (က) ဖန္တီးႏိုင္မႈ စြမ္းရည္၊ စြမ္းပကား။ Some things are beyond human contrivance. (ခ) စီမံလုပ္ေဆာင္နည္း အဆင့္ဆင့္။ the contrivance of an effective method. ၃။ (က) [C] ပိပိရိရိ အကြက္ဆင္ျခင္း။ လွည့္ကြက္။ an ingenious contrivance to get her to sign the document without reading it. (ခ) [U] ေတာ္ေသာ္လည္း မတည္ၾကည္ေသာ အမူအက်င့္။ Honesty rather than contrivance is what we expect here.

Examples

  1. contrite /'kɒntraÇt, kǝn'traÇt/ adj ( fml ) ေနာင္တရေသာ။ a contrite apology/ manner