Dictionary entry
Under the name( of )sth
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(idm) အမည်ခံ၍။
Definition
uncertain / ʌn'sɜ:tn / adj ၁။ (က) ~ (about/ of sth) သံသယရိွ[ေသာ]။ ေသခ်ာဂနစြာ မသိ[ေသာ]။ မေသခ်ာ [ေသာ]။ be/ feel uncertain (about) what to do ❍ uncertain about/ of one's legal rights. ၂။ မေျပာတတ္ေသာ။ မေရရာေသာ။ The outcome is still uncertain. ❍ The industry faces an uncertain future. ၃။ အတတ္မေျပာႏိုင္ေသာ။ မေသခ်ာေသာ။ As a player, her form at the moment is uncertain. ၄။ စိတ္မခ်ရေသာ။ ေျပာရခက္ေသာ။ uncertain weather ❍ a man of uncertain temper. ၅။ စမ္းတဝါးဝါး(ျပဳေသာ)။ the baby's first uncertain steps. ❏ in no uncertain terms [ IDM ] ရွင္းရွင္းလင္းလင္း။ ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား။ I told him what I thought of him in no uncertain terms! ❏ uncertainly adv ခ်ီတံုခ်တံု။ မေရမရာ။ speak/ smile uncertainly. ❏ uncertainty / ʌn'sɜ:tnti / n (က) [U] မေသခ်ာျခင္း။ မေရရာျခင္း။ There is some uncertainty about when the game is due to start. (ခ) [C esp pl ] မေရရာျခင္း။ အျပတ္ မေျပာ ႏိုင္ျခင္း။ the uncertainties of life ❍ political/ economic uncertainty.
Examples
- The origin of the word is uncertain.
- [it is uncertain whether/why/how etc] : It is uncertain how they entered the property.
- [remain uncertain] : Despite recent research
- the precise mechanism of the virus remains uncertain.
- The economic outlook was beginning to look uncertain.
- [uncertain future] : The industry as a whole faces a very uncertain future.
- [uncertain about/of] : I left the meeting feeling anxious
- and uncertain about what to do next.
- [uncertain what/why/how etc] : Greg was uncertain how to respond to this odd request.
- Sara seemed more self-assured: no longer young and uncertain
- but a confident professional woman.