Dictionary entry

In doubt

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Myanmar Meaning

[IDM ] မသေချာ။ မရေရာ။

Definition

doubt /daƱt/ n ၁။ [U, C] ~ (about/as to sth); ~ (as to) whether… သံသယ။ မယံုသကၤာ။ There is (no) room for doubt. ❍ The latest scientific discoveries cast doubt on earlier theories. ❍ Some people have expressed/raised doubts about her honesty. ❍ I gave him the job despite lingering/nagging doubts about his suitability. ❍ She's sure she'll pass her exams, but personally I have my doubts. ❍ She was without doubt (ie definitely) the finest ballerina of her day. ❍ His right to the title has been established beyond (reasonable) doubt. ၂။ [U] ~ about sth/that… သံသယျဖစ္စရာ (မလို)။ ယံုစရာ(မရိွ)။ စိတ္မခ်စရာ (မျမင္)။ There's not much doubt about it (ie It is almost certain). ❍ I have no doubt that you will succeed. v သံသယျဖစ္သည္။ ေစာဒကတက္သည္။ We have no reason to doubt her story. ❍ ‘I'm telling the truth’. ‘ I don't doubt it (for a minute). ’ ❍ I don't doubt that he'll come (ie I'm sure he will). ❍ Even if he had told the police, which she doubted, why should they believe him? ❍ I doubt whether he'll come. ❍ I doubt if that was what he wanted. doubter n ❏ doubting Thomas n ကိုယ္တိုင္ျမင္ေတြ႕ရမွ၊ ခိုင္လံုမွ ယံုၾကည္တတ္သူ။ ကိုယ္ေတြ႕ႀကံဳမွ ယံုတတ္သူ။ She's a real doubting Thomas—I'm sure she won't believe you're back till she sees you. ❏ in doubt [ IDM ] မေသခ်ာ။ မေရရာ။ The contract is still in doubt. ❍ If in doubt, don't သံသယရိွေနရင္ မလုပ္နဲ႔။ (ေသခ်ာမွလုပ္)။ ❏ no doubt [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ေကာင္းျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည္။ No doubt he means to help, but in fact he just gets in the way. သူ ကူညီခ်င္တာ ျဖစ္ေကာင္းျဖစ္မယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ တကယ္တမ္းက်ေတာ့ ေျခ႐ႈပ္ရာ ေရာက္ေနတယ္။

Examples

  1. [doubt about/as to] : There seems to be some doubt as to whether this is legal.
  2. [have no/little doubt that] : I have no doubt that he will succeed.
  3. [there is little/no doubt that] : There’s little doubt that the measures will be extremely unpopular.
  4. [raise doubts] : The accident raised doubts about (=makes people have doubts about) the safety of the aircraft.
  5. [nagging/lingering doubts] : Nagging doubts about her story do remain.
  6. [grave/serious doubts] : I have serious doubts about whether this system will work.