Was heißt »be­mit­lei­dens­wert« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv be­mit­lei­dens­wert lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • pathetic
  • pitiful

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Tief gerührt von der bemitleidenswerten Geschichte des alten Mannes, brach das kleine Mädchen in Tränen aus.

The little girl, deeply moved by the old man's pitiful story, burst into tears.

Du bist doch bemitleidenswert.

You're pathetic.

Synonyme

arm:
needy
poor
arm­se­lig:
abject
paltry
er­bärm­lich:
abysmal
miserable
he­r­un­ter­ge­kom­men:
down and out
down-and-out
run-down
jäm­mer­lich:
abysmal
lamentable
mi­se­ra­bel:
miserable
nichts­wür­dig:
contemptible
schä­big:
shabby
un­säg­lich:
unspeakable
wür­de­los:
undignified

Antonyme

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Tom looked rather pathetic.

  • Because the servers communicated in their mother tongue among themselves, some customers complained and thereby made a pathetic display of their own shortcomings.

  • With pitiful clothing and a handfull of bills with him, an old man asked with quavering voice whether he could pay his bills here.

  • Just leave me alone. You're pathetic.

  • That's a pathetic excuse.

  • His driving was pathetic.

  • Tom is pathetic, isn't he?

  • This is so pathetic.

  • You guys are pathetic.

  • My French is pathetic.

  • He's pathetic and stupid.

  • That's so pathetic.

  • That was pathetic.

  • Isn't it pathetic?

  • Tom is pathetic.

  • You're so pathetic.

  • How pathetic!

  • This is pathetic.

  • My classmates are pathetic. They have studied for four years and yet they can't conjugate verbs! The only student who can speak well is not in the class anymore.

  • It's just too pathetic that this henpecked husband ended up hooking up with a wallflower.

Bemitleidenswert übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: bemitleidenswert. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: bemitleidenswert. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 784374, 1909235, 9391214, 7954959, 6031354, 4606484, 3680300, 3680296, 3417017, 2892248, 2713572, 2685815, 2269457, 2257401, 2250966, 2248663, 2236809, 2218388, 2111815, 1745626, 1210186 & 669772. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR