Was heißt »ver­schro­ben« auf Englisch?

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

  • strange
  • eccentric
  • wry

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Er ist ein recht verschrobener Zeitgenosse.

He's quite a singular sort of bloke.

Tom ist recht verschroben.

Tom is rather eccentric.

Viele Gelehrte gelten als verschroben.

Many scholars are considered strange.

Many scholars are seen as weirdos.

Tom ist ein bisschen verschroben, aber doch ein guter Kerl.

Tom is a bit strange, but he's a good guy.

Synonyme

ei­gen­ar­tig:
characteristic
peculiar
weird
merk­wür­dig:
remarkable
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
uncanny
weird
skur­ril:
droll
odd
peculiar
whimsical
son­der­bar:
peculiar
spe­zi­ell:
special
spin­nert:
crazy
mad
nutty
über­spannt:
exaggerated
inflated
un­an­ge­passt:
inadequate
inappropriate
unsuitable
un­ge­wöhn­lich:
exceptionally
unusual
unwontedly
welt­fremd:
unworldly
wun­der­lich:
whimsical

Sinnverwandte Wörter

ko­misch:
comic
wun­der­sam:
wondrous

Antonyme

durch­schnitt­lich:
average
mean
nor­mal:
normal

Englische Beispielsätze

  • What a strange idea.

  • That bloke's behaviour was very strange.

  • Her strange behaviour was just a diversionary tactic.

  • Numbers will always be strange to Toki Pona.

  • "Who's that strange bloke?" "No idea. He was just there all of a sudden."

  • It's strange to read my sentences in translation.

  • "The street is deserted." "That's very strange."

  • Is this strange?

  • It's strange that she did something like that.

  • Little is known about this strange planet.

  • It's strange that she hasn't arrived yet.

  • That's quite strange.

  • What a strange life you have.

  • The soup had turned a strange colour, so Tom decided to pour it away and open a tin of ravioli instead.

  • He can be a bit strange sometimes.

  • Oddly enough, his peculiar behaviour didn't seem at all weird to me at first; well, maybe it did seem a bit strange.

  • Do you hear that strange noise, too?

  • Can you hear that strange noise as well?

  • It seems strange to me.

  • My washing machine is making strange noises.

Ver­schro­ben übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: verschroben. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: verschroben. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1661424, 1703426, 10451271, 11517149, 11477804, 11505688, 11317235, 11301124, 11563134, 11222583, 11163387, 11161657, 11155406, 10999848, 10867202, 10816714, 10788367, 10766994, 10720997, 10629891, 10557709, 10555539, 10501792 & 10365424. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR