Was heißt »hoch­tra­bend« auf Englisch?

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

  • entitled
  • highfalutin
  • fancy
  • purple
  • pretentious
  • consequential
  • lofty
  • pompous
  • grandiloquent
  • magniloquent
  • bombastic
  • overblown
  • high-falutin
  • highfaluting
  • high-faluting
  • toplofty
  • grandiloquently

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Er redet immer mit solchen hochtrabenden Worten.

He always talks in such high-sounding terms.

„Hyberbel“ ist ein hochtrabender Ausdruck für „Übertreibung“.

"Hyperbole" is a fancy way of saying "exaggeration."

Synonyme

in­brüns­tig:
ardent
fervent
pa­the­tisch:
declamatory
elevated
emotional
emotive
histrionic
impassioned
solemn
pries­ter­lich:
clerical
priestly
so­lenn:
solemn

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Did anything tickle your fancy?

  • Did anything catch your fancy?

  • Do you fancy a cup of tea?

  • Uh, mister fancy pants learned a new word.

  • A copyright library is a library legally entitled to receive a free copy of every book published in the UK.

  • Most raspberries are red, but there are also white, yellow, and even purple raspberries.

  • Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

  • Don't you fancy going to the cinema?

  • Do you fancy going to the cinema tomorrow night?

  • I fancy something Indian for dinner.

  • I shouldn't have eaten those biscuits. I don't fancy tea now.

  • "How's your new apartment?" "Oh, nothing too fancy."

  • You already have the best part, but whoever owns the princess of the golden castle is also entitled to the golden horse.

  • No matter what grand and lofty reason you have, it's not right to do this.

  • Tom has written a very interesting book entitled "Snapshots of my Life".

  • I was going to make myself a strawberry-jam sandwich. Do you fancy one as well?

  • Do you fancy going for something to eat?

  • You are entitled to an opinion, not to an audience.

  • I don't fancy pizza.

  • The insect is not blue, it is purple.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: hochtrabend. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: hochtrabend. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 2000747, 10492302, 11957800, 11957799, 11939870, 11778225, 11737690, 11658421, 11654798, 11637090, 11636814, 11620556, 11601083, 11535904, 11284449, 11263536, 11260098, 11240511, 11173940, 11167253, 11166130 & 11150827. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR