Was heißt »spie­ßig« auf Englisch?

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

  • square
  • bourgeois

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Es war sehr spießig.

It was very stuffy.

Synonyme

bie­der:
conservative
conventional
drab
honest
hypocritical
narrow-minded
petit bourgeois
petty bourgeois
prude
puritanical
respectable
stale
stodgy
trustworthy
upright
bor­niert:
narrow-minded
eng­stir­nig:
narrow-minded
phi­lis­trös:
philistine

Sinnverwandte Wörter

klein­lich:
fussy
mean
narrow-minded
petty
stingy

Englische Beispielsätze

  • The subway station is at the square.

  • The square is full of bicycles.

  • Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient city twelve square kilometres in size and recovered a large number of bronze, jade and gold artefacts.

  • The crowd filled the square.

  • The flea market takes place in the main square tomorrow.

  • The flea market takes place tomorrow in the main square.

  • Anyway, it's better to be a square something than a round nothing.

  • The square was brightly lit.

  • We hurried into the square.

  • As customary on Christmas Day, Pope Francis appeared at the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica overlooking the square to deliver his “Urbi et Orbi” message and blessing to the city and to the world.

  • How many square feet is this house?

  • We hurried onto the square.

  • The checker that, when performing the capture of several pieces, passes through a coronation square, without stopping there, will not be promoted to a king.

  • In 100-square checkers, each player has 20 equal pieces, initially placed on squares 1 to 20, for black, and 31 to 50, for white.

  • In the 64-square checkers game, each player has 12 equal pieces, initially placed on the dark squares of rows 1, 2, and 3, for white, and 6, 7, and 8, for black.

  • In the square, a crowd had gathered round the buskers and was listening to them.

  • Visitors from around the world were gathering on the square in front of the famous building.

  • Visitors from all four corners of the earth gathered on the square in front of the famous building.

  • The whole square was covered with snow.

  • Marriage is the true fortress of bourgeois morality.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: spießig. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: spießig. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 7555529, 11314824, 11309360, 11273535, 11090621, 11035550, 11035549, 10854959, 10741471, 10683496, 10580974, 10550560, 10419487, 10341419, 10336052, 10336014, 10314493, 10281817, 10281815, 10248353 & 10148286. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR