Was heißt »scho­nungs­los« auf Englisch?

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

  • blunt
  • merciless
  • savage

Synonyme

di­rekt:
direct
er­bar­mungs­los:
dispiteous
dispiteously
mercilessly
pitiless
pitilessly
remorseless
remorselessly
kalt­blü­tig:
cold-blooded
of­fen:
open
skru­pel­los:
unscrupulous
un­ver­hoh­len:
blatantly
openly
plainspoken
unashamed
unconcealed
undisguised

Sinnverwandte Wörter

bru­tal:
bestial
brutal
brute
brutish
ruffian
tough
violent
dras­tisch:
drastic
ehr­lich:
real
really
herz­los:
heartless
kalt:
chilling
chilly
cold
cool
freezing
rück­sichts­los:
inconsiderate
streng:
strict

Antonyme

rück­sichts­voll:
considerate
vor­sich­tig:
careful
chary
circumspect
deliberate
discreet
prudent
wary
zu­rück­hal­tend:
aloof
cautious
modest
reluctant
reserved
reticent
retiring
self-effacing
shy

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Subtle hints get you nowhere with Tom. You have to be frank and blunt with him, otherwise he won't twig.

  • I can't write with this blunt pencil.

  • This pencil is blunt. Could you sharpen it, please?

  • This pencil is blunt. Have you got a sharpener?

  • This pencil is blunt.

  • The pencil is blunt.

  • These scissors are blunt. They need sharpening.

  • The scissors are blunt. They need to be sharpened.

  • That pencil is totally blunt. You should sharpen it.

  • Forgive me for being blunt.

  • The pencil is blunt. It needs sharpening.

  • Tom is merciless.

  • He was killed by a blunt weapon.

  • One of the clichés of each detective story is that the victim has obviously been hit "with a blunt object".

  • The knife was so blunt that I could not cut the meat with it and I resorted to my pocket knife.

  • Every savage can dance.

  • Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.

  • My sword may be blunt, but that's more than enough for someone like you.

  • The savage robbed me of my precious jewels and ran away.

  • There are still some savage tribes on that island.

Scho­nungs­los übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: schonungslos. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: schonungslos. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 11307756, 11066202, 10910254, 10910253, 10910252, 10903637, 9199770, 9199769, 8910506, 7715409, 3750903, 2236772, 1683005, 1401886, 940939, 837398, 694032, 498428, 324137 & 44755. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR