Was heißt »skur­ril« auf Englisch?

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

  • whimsical
  • odd
  • peculiar
  • droll

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Es ist skurril.

It's grotesque.

It's bizarre.

Ist das nicht skurril? Ein Ausländer, der einem Einheimischen das Feilschen auf dem Basar beibringt!

Isn't it strange?–A foreigner showing a local how to bargain at the bazaar.

Die Fassade dieses Gebäudes sieht sehr skurril aus. Keine Ahnung, was sich der Architekt dabei gedacht hat.

The façade of this building is bizarre. What the architect was thinking I don't know.

That building's facade is bizarre. No idea what the architect was thinking.

Selbst harmlos anmutende Diophantische Gleichungen mit recht kleinen Koeffizienten können skurril große kleinste Lösungen besitzen.

Even harmless-looking Diophantine equations with rather small coefficients can have absurdly large smallest solutions.

Synonyme

aben­teu­er­lich:
adventurous
aber­wit­zig:
ludicrous
ab­son­der­lich:
strange
weird
ab­s­t­rus:
abstruse
ab­surd:
absurd
be­fremd­lich:
disconcerting
disturbing
bi­zarr:
bizarre
weird
ei­gen­ar­tig:
characteristic
strange
weird
fan­tas­tisch:
fantastic
gro­tesk:
grotesque
preposterous
ko­misch:
comic
ku­ri­os:
curious
merk­wür­dig:
remarkable
strange
pa­ra­dox:
paradoxical
schräg:
askance
askant
aslant
aslope
athwart
bent
crooked
disapproving (disapproving (glance))
disapproving
dodgy
glance
look
oblique
obliquely
off-key
peer (peer (at))
scrutinize
searching (searching (look))
shady
shoot
shortly
shy (shy (of))
skew
slant
way-out
selt­sam:
bizarre
eerie
seldsome
strange
uncanny
weird
son­der­bar:
strange
son­der­lich:
espacial
particular
special
spe­zi­ell:
special
spin­nert:
crazy
mad
nutty
über­spannt:
exaggerated
inflated
un­ge­wöhn­lich:
exceptionally
unusual
unwontedly
ver­schro­ben:
eccentric
strange
wry
wun­der­sam:
wondrous

Antonyme

nor­mal:
normal

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Tom and Mary make an odd pair.

  • I know Tom is odd.

  • The girl gave him an odd look.

  • Until July, every odd month has thirty-one days. As of August, every even-numbered month has thirty-one days.

  • He's an odd fellow.

  • He's an odd character.

  • In the Internet age, people who write letters are regarded as being odd.

  • In the age of the Internet, people who write letters are considered odd.

  • You're wearing odd socks.

  • One and three are odd numbers.

  • Something about him is odd.

  • He's quite an odd bloke, but over time you get to know him and appreciate him.

  • She certainly is an odd child.

  • It's no wonder Matthew and Marilla are both a little odd, living away back here by themselves.

  • It's odd that chickens never fall off their perches when they're asleep.

  • He's very peculiar.

  • It feels odd finding sentences on here without any English versions.

  • Some people gave Tom some odd looks, but he didn't care.

  • You're a peculiar girl, Mary.

  • You're a peculiar girl.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: skurril. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: skurril. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1909423, 5194158, 9702624, 10623840, 7285269, 7522045, 6684282, 6405022, 6299096, 6299094, 6207965, 6207963, 6203683, 8576535, 8836799, 8920200, 5825292, 5824704, 8975411, 5603332, 9195707, 9345546, 5397923 & 5397922. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR