Dictionary entry
Uncommonly
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
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Definition
uncommon / ʌn'kɒmǝn / adj ၁။ ရွားပါးေသာ။ ထူးေသာ။ an uncommon sighting/ occurrence ❍ Instances of the disease are uncommon in this country. ၂။ ( fml ) ထူးထူး ျခားျခား။ act with uncommon haste. ❏ uncommonly adv ( fml ) ထူးထူးကဲကဲ။ ထူးထူးျခားျခား။ an uncommonly gifted child.
Examples
- ‘They are uncommon to rare in the western Washington lowlands during migration
- in March.’
- ‘New York must have been getting to me
- because it was not uncommon for a stranger to spark up a conversation down here.’
- ‘And all four are very unusual and uncommon topics for discussion amongst friends.’
- ‘It is especially important in this area as it supports many rare and nationally uncommon species of plant.’
- ‘Yeast infections of the skin in older children
- teens
- and adults are uncommon.’
- ‘Crime
- rather than being abnormal and uncommon
- may be considered a routine part of life.’
- ‘It describes a circumstance which is such as to form an exception
- which is out of the ordinary course
- or unusual
- or special
- or uncommon.’
- ‘Now it is not uncommon to hear an adult swear in front of their children in public
- and the kids to curse back.’
- ‘However
- it is not uncommon for relatives of either the husband or the wife to stay with them for a time.’
- ‘It is very uncommon for strangers to know how to use althea that you just collected.’
- ‘Like
- Darren
- I have a fairly uncommon name - however
- there are a couple of others out there.’
- ‘The case presented here represents an unusual presentation of an uncommon disease.’
- ‘Endemic to the Solomon Islands
- this eagle is usually regarded as rare or uncommon.’
- ‘Turkey Vultures are uncommon to rare in the drier portions of the Columbia Basin
- even as migrants.’
- ‘Single crystals of two or more different colours are not uncommon
- making unusual multicoloured faceted stones.’
- ‘Such an ensemble was uncommon for ordinary ladies in the age
- but Raven was far from ordinary.’
- ‘My two children have uncommon names that are easy to pronounce and spell.’
- ‘Such behaviour
- unusual as it was
- was not uncommon in Surrealist circles in Paris in the 1930s.’
- ‘Their numbers can vary considerably from year to year
- but they are always considered uncommon or rare.’
- ‘The confusion of national and personal interest is not uncommon among dictators
- however urbane.’