Was heißt »bie­der« auf Englisch?

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

  • honest
  • respectable
  • upright
  • trustworthy
  • bourgeois
  • petit bourgeois
  • petty bourgeois
  • narrow-minded
  • hypocritical
  • puritanical
  • conservative
  • drab
  • stodgy
  • stale
  • conventional
  • prude

Synonyme

brav:
obedient
ehr­bar:
reputable
ehr­lich:
real
really
in­te­ger:
integer
kreuz­brav:
good as gold
phi­lis­trös:
philistine
red­lich:
candid
do one's best
real
really
sincere
schlicht:
plain
simple
spie­ßig:
square
un­be­schol­ten:
integer
spotless
wa­cker:
brave

Antonyme

ei­gen­wil­lig:
headstrong
idiosyncratic
flip­pig:
flighty
frech:
cheeky
impudent
insolent
sassy
saucy
ge­mein:
common
keck:
sassy
kess:
cheeky
cocky
jaunty
natty
pert
kor­rupt:
bent
corrupt
ruch­los:
heinous
ruthless
schräg:
askance
askant
aslant
aslope
athwart
bent
crooked
disapproving (disapproving (glance))
disapproving
dodgy
glance
look
oblique
obliquely
off-key
peer (peer (at))
scrutinize
searching (searching (look))
shady
shoot
shortly
shy (shy (of))
skew
slant
way-out
schrill:
shrill
skur­ril:
droll
odd
peculiar
whimsical
ver­derbt:
debauched
depraved
ver­dor­ben:
bad
off
ver­kom­men:
be wasted
decay
go bad
go to waste
ver­lo­gen:
dishonest
faux

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Are you honest or are you lying to me?

  • It's a shock, to be honest. I didn't expect that.

  • He is poor but honest.

  • It has been on the market for only three weeks and has already achieved very respectable sales figures.

  • To be honest, I don't feel like it.

  • To be honest, it's hard to understand why you want to go.

  • He's a very honest lad.

  • To be honest, I didn't know that.

  • She's not just kind; she's honest as well.

  • To be honest, I'm not surprised. Tom always does that.

  • Why are people not honest?

  • Just be honest about whether or not you're a native speaker.

  • To be honest, she no longer loves him.

  • To be honest, she doesn't love him any more.

  • I appreciate him because he's honest.

  • This policy is in no way honest.

  • The air in the hall was stale.

  • She's trustworthy.

  • He leads a respectable life.

  • To be honest, it's hard for me to understand why you want to go there.

Bie­der übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: bieder. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: bieder. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 11583425, 11311364, 11289202, 11157162, 11134684, 10903645, 10903622, 10804236, 10782146, 10767008, 10705195, 10687888, 10683781, 10683780, 10605025, 10505976, 10455460, 10339515, 10317539 & 10263493. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR