Was heißt »de­sas­trös« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv »de­sas­trös« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • disastrous

Synonyme

elend:
miserable
er­bärm­lich:
abysmal
miserable
mi­se­ra­bel:
miserable
ver­derb­lich:
perishable
ver­hee­rend:
devastating

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Before the renovation the house was in a disastrous state.

  • Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

  • The situation is disastrous.

  • Midterm elections are often disastrous for the parties in power.

  • Every politician must be responsive to complaints from the public, or he or she will become inflexible and make disastrous decisions.

  • The government's decision had disastrous economic consequences.

  • Heaven forbid! That would be disastrous.

  • The sign for siblings in Japanese sign language could well be misunderstood by many Americans with disastrous consequences.

  • Solar storms next year could prove disastrous for the electrical grid.

  • Pollution has a disastrous effect on the ecology of a region.

Desaströs übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: desaströs. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: desaströs. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 6640006, 6287080, 5158822, 3694049, 2400720, 2397858, 2042014, 938020, 506094 & 25709. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR