Was heißt »mü­ßig« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv »mü­ßig« (auch: müssig) lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • idle
  • otiose
  • futile
  • pointless
  • useless

Synonyme

be­quem:
comfortable
comfy
ent­behr­lich:
dispensable
er­üb­ri­gen:
become unnecessary
faul:
rotten
in­ert:
inert
pas­siv:
passive
phleg­ma­tisch:
phlegmatic
sinn­los:
absurd
senseless
ta­ten­los:
inactive
über­flüs­sig:
superfluous
unnecessary
um­sonst:
free
gratis
un­nö­tig:
unnecessary
ver­zicht­bar:
dispensable
expendable
wert­los:
worthless

Sinnverwandte Wörter

ei­tel:
vain
lu­xu­ri­ös:
luxurious

Antonyme

ar­beit­sam:
industrious
flei­ßig:
assiduous
diligent
hardworking
industrious
keen
studious
nö­tig:
necessary
not­wen­dig:
necessary
prag­ma­tisch:
pragmatic
pragmatical
tä­tig:
active

Englische Beispielsätze

  • It's futile to feign illness.

  • Threatening me is useless, I won't say anything.

  • It's useless talking to him.

  • Forced work is pointless: I attract them with decent pay.

  • Half of what we write is harmful; the other half is useless.

  • Thus we see an old truth confirmed: war is always useless.

  • This is completely useless.

  • Any further discussion is pointless.

  • This is just an idle threat.

  • Men are so useless.

  • You're really useless.

  • It's useless to argue.

  • It's useless to deny it.

  • Why do we learn so much useless stuff in school?

  • All the wealth in the world is useless when death comes knocking on your door.

  • They only wrote idle chatter about her in the newspaper.

  • When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

  • She thinks her job is pointless.

  • Tom's new gadget is cool, but useless.

  • You're totally useless.

Müßig übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: müßig. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: müßig. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 5055362, 5088333, 4491581, 5261611, 5371802, 4128337, 5520591, 4073430, 3968630, 3836045, 5809807, 3826545, 3823363, 5817677, 6116171, 3368805, 3350839, 3136156, 3107867 & 2955072. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR