Dictionary entry

Cowardice

Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊədɪs/

Pronunciation

/ˈkaʊədɪs/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) သူရဲဘောနည်းခြင်း။

Definition

coward /'kaƱǝd/ n ( derog ) သူရဲေဘာေၾကာင္သူ။ ငေၾကာက္။ Don't be such a coward—jump! ❍ I'm a terrible coward when it comes to dealing with sick people (ie It upsets me and I avoid it). ❏ cowardice /'kaƱǝdÇs/ n [U] သူရဲေဘာနည္းျခင္း။ He felt ashamed of his cowardice in not coming forward to support his friend. ❍ She accused the censors of moral cowardice. ❏ cowardly adj ( derog ) သတၱိနည္းေသာ။ သူရဲေဘာေၾကာင္ ေသာ။ cowardly lies/ behaviour ❍ a cowardly and brutal attack ❍ It was cowardly of you not to admit your mistake.

Examples

  1. coward /'kaƱǝd/ n ( derog ) သူရဲေဘာေၾကာင္သူ။ ငေၾကာက္။ Don't be such a coward—jump!
  2. She accused the censors of moral cowardice. ❏ cowardly adj ( derog ) သတၱိနည္းေသာ။ သူရဲေဘာေၾကာင္ ေသာ။ cowardly lies/ behaviour
  3. a cowardly and brutal attack
  4. It was cowardly of you not to admit your mistake.