Dictionary entry

Stubborn

Pronunciation: /ˈstʌbən/

Pronunciation

/ˈstʌbən/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) ခေါင်းမာသော။ အလျော့မပေးသော။ ပြောရခက်သော။

Definition

stubborn /'stʌbǝn/ adj ၁။ ( often derog ) (က) ေခါင္းမာေသာ။ အေလွ်ာ့မေပးေသာ။ be too stubborn to apologize ❍ She can be as stubborn as a mule (ie very stubborn). (ခ) ေျပာရခက္ေသာ။ ဇြတ္တရြတ္ ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ေပကတ္ကတ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ေခါင္းမာ ေသာ။ show stubborn resistance to change ❍ a stubborn refusal to be involved. ၂။ ကိုင္တြယ္ျပဳျပင္ရ ခက္ေသာ။ ကုသရခက္ေသာ။ a stubborn cough that has lasted for weeks ❍ stubborn stains ❍ You'll have to push hard—that door is a little stubborn. ❏ stubbornly adv ဇြတ္။ He stubbornly refused to pay. stubbornness n [U]

Examples

  1. A stubborn look/voice
  2. Defenders of the city put up stubborn resistance.
  3. The proposed law is meeting stubborn opposition.
  4. A stubborn cold
  5. Stubborn weeds/stains
  6. They stubbornly refuse to admit there’s a problem.