Was heißt »wei­test­ge­hend« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv »wei­test­ge­hend« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • wide
  • widely
  • mostly

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Beim Übersetzen muss man beachten, dass die Sätze natürlich klingen sollen und dass die Aussage der Originalsätze weitestgehend erhalten bleibt.

When you translate, you must remember that sentences should sound natural, and that the meaning of the original sentences should be preserved as much as possible.

Synonyme

fast:
all but
almost
nearly
ge­wis­ser­ma­ßen:
as it were
in a way
so to speak
to a certain extent
gleich­sam:
quasi
so to speak
qua­si:
quasi
sort of
virtually
so­zu­sa­gen:
as it were
quasi
so to speak
sort of
to all intents and purposes

Antonyme

we­nig:
a few
little

Englische Beispielsätze

  • The chest is just under a meter wide.

  • It's mostly documentaries on this channel.

  • Mary's face was almost completely hidden by a hat with a wide brim.

  • The sky is mostly overcast in the morning, but brightens up in the afternoon.

  • The sky is mostly overcast in the morning, but the cloud disperses in the afternoon.

  • The sky is mostly overcast in the morning, but the cloud breaks up in the afternoon.

  • The door to the hall stood wide open.

  • The hall door stood wide open.

  • The back door was wide open.

  • Fortunately, Tom's weather forecast was wide of the mark: the wind changed direction, and it promised to be a wonderful day.

  • The lake is four miles wide.

  • The chest is almost a metre wide.

  • Our corridor is ten metres long and two-and-a-half metres wide, with four doors on both the left and right leading off it.

  • How wide has the gap got to be between the wall tiles?

  • To get all that in a picture you'll need a wide-angle lens.

  • The dogs on the housing estate all give Mary's cat a wide berth.

  • All the dogs on the housing estate give Mary's cat a wide berth.

  • Tom wanted to see the big wide world.

  • How wide must the gap be between the wall tiles?

  • The photo album contains mostly family photos.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

um­fang­reich:
comprehensive
extensive

Weitestgehend übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: weitestgehend. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: weitestgehend. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 3352865, 9710344, 9517169, 9476140, 9440264, 9440263, 9440262, 9922087, 9925768, 9997865, 10036249, 10076435, 9211648, 10171158, 9149564, 10181182, 10193139, 10193141, 9116108, 9086279 & 9086227. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR