Was heißt »haar­scharf« auf Englisch?

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

  • by a hair's breadth
  • by a whisker
  • exact

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Bist du schon mal haarscharf davon gekommen?

Have you ever had a narrow escape?

Synonyme

an­nä­hernd:
approximately
bald:
soon
bei­na­he:
almost
nearly
de­tail­liert:
detailed
in detail
ex­akt:
accurate
precise
fast:
all but
almost
nearly
haar­ge­nau:
to a hair
kaum:
hardly
knapp:
scant
succinct
terse
tight
na­he­zu:
almost
nearly
prä­zi­se:
precise
so gut wie:
almost
as good as
practically
so­eben:
just now

Sinnverwandte Wörter

um­gangs­sprach­lich:
colloquial
colloquially
demotic
nonstandard

Englische Beispielsätze

  • School was the exact opposite of a democratic institution.

  • It's somewhere in the city centre, though I forget the exact address.

  • I don't know the exact time he'll arrive.

  • Can you tell me what is the exact amount?

  • She is talkative, but her spouse is the exact opposite and never speaks.

  • There are no exact one-to-one equivalents between English and Latin words.

  • Anna often says the exact opposite of what she really thinks.

  • You say one thing, and then you do the exact opposite.

  • Could you be a little more exact?

  • Our study showed the exact opposite.

  • It's not the exact value, but rather an approximation.

  • Please tell me the exact time.

  • Are these figures exact?

  • I know the exact date.

  • You have to insert the exact amount.

  • The exact amount must be inserted.

  • My mother couldn't stand the ticking of the clock that she kept on the mantel in our family home. Since she could never prove who had done it, winding it up was a way for me to exact revenge.

  • ?Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism,” said Macron. “Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.”

  • I don't remember her exact words.

  • I don't know the exact date.

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: haarscharf. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: haarscharf. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 8599356, 11327748, 11301883, 11301854, 11281726, 11165015, 11003395, 10987904, 10764093, 10325071, 9836775, 9096806, 9004231, 8910455, 8837472, 8301091, 8301090, 7525169, 7453349, 6730617 & 6451980. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR