Bedeutung von "preposterous" im Wörterbuch Englisch

ETYMOLOGIE DES WORTES PREPOSTEROUS

From Latin praeposterus reversed, from prae in front, before + posterus following.

Als Etymologie wird die Wissenschaft von der Herkunft von Wörtern und deren Struktur- und Bedeutungsänderungen bezeichnet.

AUSSPRACHE VON PREPOSTEROUS AUF ENGLISCH

preposterous  [prɪˈpɒstərəs]

GRAMMATIKALISCHE KATEGORIE VON PREPOSTEROUS

Preposterous ist ein Adjektiv.

Das Adjektiv ist das Wort, das das Nomen begleitet, um es genauer zu bestimmen oder zu bewerten.

WAS BEDEUTET PREPOSTEROUS AUF ENGLISCH

Definition von preposterous im Wörterbuch Englisch

Die Definition von absurd im Wörterbuch ist gegen die Natur, Vernunft oder Sinn; absurd; lächerlich.

SYNONYME VON «PREPOSTEROUS» AUF ENGLISCH

Die folgenden Wörter im Wörterbuch Englisch haben eine ähnliche oder gleiche Bedeutung wie «preposterous» und gehören zu derselben grammatikalischen Kategorie.

Synonyme auf Englisch von preposterous

absurd · asinine · bizarre · cockamamie · crazy · excessive · exorbitant · extravagant · extreme · foolish · impossible · incredible · insane · irrational · laughable · ludicrous · monstrous · nonsensical · out of the question · outrageous · ridiculous · risible · senseless · shocking · unreasonable · unthinkable

ÜBERSETZUNG VON PREPOSTEROUS

Erfahre, wie die Übersetzung von preposterous auf 25 Sprachen mit unserem mehrsprachigen Übersetzer Englisch lautet.

Die Übersetzungen von preposterous auf andere Sprachen, die in diesem Bereich vorgestellt werden, sind zustande gekommen durch automatische statistische Übersetzung, wobei die Basiseinheit der Übersetzung das Wort «preposterous» in Englisch ist.

• Übersetzer Deutsch - Chinesisch: 荒唐的
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Spanisch: absurdo
• Englisch: preposterous
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Hindi: निरर्थक
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Arabisch: غير معقول
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Russisch: нелепо
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Portugiesisch: absurdo
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Bengalisch: ভ্রান্ত
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Französisch: absurde
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Malaysisch: Tidak masuk akal
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Deutsch: grotesk
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Japanisch: 非常識な
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Koreanisch: 터무니 없는
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Javanisch: Preposterous
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Vietnamesisch: mâu thuẩn
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Tamil: அபத்தமானது
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Marathi: विसंगत
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Türkisch: mantıksız
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Italienisch: assurdo
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Polnisch: niedorzeczne
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Ukrainisch: безглуздо
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Rumänisch: absurd
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Griechisch: παράλογο
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Afrikaans: verregaande
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Schwedisch: befängt
• Übersetzer Deutsch - Norwegisch: absurd

10 ZITATE AUF ENGLISCH MIT «PREPOSTEROUS»

Zitate und Redensarten mit dem Wort preposterous.

1

Alvin Adams

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

2

Steve Albini

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

3

Lamar Alexander

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.

4

Bob Beauprez

Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

5

Colin Firth

They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.

6

Virchand Gandhi

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

7

Michael Hayden

For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

8

John Jay Hooker

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.

9

Tommy Lee Jones

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

10

Jackie Mason

Predictions are preposterous.

10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «PREPOSTEROUS» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN

Entdecke den Gebrauch von preposterous in der folgenden bibliographischen Auswahl. Bücher, die mit preposterous im Zusammenhang stehen und kurze Auszüge derselben, um seinen Gebrauch in der Literatur kontextbezogen darzustellen.

Preposterous Proverbs: Why Fine Words Butter No Parsnips

After all, do ‘many hands make light work’ or do ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’? You can’t really have it both ways.In 'Preposterous Proverbs', Max Cryer looks at a vast array of proverbs from around the world.

Max Cryer, 2011

Preposterous Erections: A Book of English Towers

Monument or observatory, watch tower or water tower, these are sixty of the very best. Preposterous Erections will arouse the interest of even the most casual observer.

Peter Ashley, 2012

Penelopethe Preposterous Birthday Party

This is the third book in the award-winning Penelope series which also includes ''Penelopethe Monsters, '' which the ''Vancouver Sun'' called ''comedy both parentskids can relate to, ''''Penelopethe Humongous Burp, '' a Canadian Toy Testing ...

Sheri Radford, 2009

Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History

The author's primary object of investigation in this text is not the Caravaggio, but rather the issue of temporality in art.

Mieke Bal, 2001

Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple ...

When we last saw George and Harold, they were about to take their pet pterodactyl Crackers back to the Cretaceous period. But things didn't work out quite as they had hoped.

‎2011

Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous

A coruscating barrage of dispatches from his sniper's post, Cruel Britannia celebrates Cohen's lonely stand.

Nick Cohen, 2000

Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of ...

If there isn't something in this book that you already agree and disagree with then you will by the time you finish it because these are among the most politically and culturally controversial ideas in all of science.

Robert Ehrlich, 2005

Preposterous violence: fables of aggression in modern culture

Discusses the psychological attraction of make-believe violence, looks at ritualized violence, and examines the connection with adolescent anxiety Twitchell begins the story in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the 'cheap ...

James B. Twitchell, 1989

Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature ...

Our Preposterous Use of Literature proposes a new natural philosophy of reading: a method of reading at once more responsible to the texts we interpret and more closely connected to the worlds in which our interpretations take place.

Tracy Scott McMillin, 2000

Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and ...

Defines unusual and obscure but legitimate English terms

Josefa Heifetz Byrne, Josefa Heifetz, Robert Byrne, 1994

10 NACHRICHTEN, IN DENEN DER BEGRIFF «PREPOSTEROUS» VORKOMMT

Erfahre, worüber man in den einheimischen und internationalen Medien spricht und wie der Begriff preposterous im Kontext der folgenden Nachrichten gebraucht wird.

Actor's sexual assault claims are preposterous, Ken Clarke tells court

He also told jurors that he “never had the compulsion” to grope a man, adding: “It's preposterous. It's off the Richter scale. It was a remarkable ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Clarke calls grope claim preposterous

Kenneth Clarke told a court yesterday that being accused of groping an actor while he was chancellor of the exchequer was like Martians ... «The Times, Jul 15»

Ralkina Jones Is the Latest Person of Color to Die in an American …

As absurd it is to die over the crime of failing to use a turn signal, it's really just as preposterous that someone should die days earlier for failing ... «VICE, Jul 15»

Manute Bol's 6'11 son Bol Bol does things 6'11 people SHOULD …

But teams are sure to start offering him, and if he continues growing and retains his preposterous skill set, he could be really special. (h/t USA ... «SB Nation, Jul 15»

Metro says Silver Spring Transit Center needs yet more repairs

... general manager, Jack Requa, on Monday, the county's chief administrative officer, Timothy Firestine, called Metro's requests “preposterous.”. «Washington Post, Jul 15»

Kelly McParland: The sorry saga of Eve Adams puts Trudeau's …

“I just find the whole thing preposterous.” Darren Calabrese/National PostOntario Liberal Mike Colle: "I just find the whole thing preposterous.". «National Post, Jul 15»

Is it possible to permanently delete a social media profile?

“The notion of a defunct Facebook seems preposterous today,” says Bernardo Huberman, director of the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett ... «New Scientist, Jul 15»

Trump snagged in Obama's birth-certificate war

Last week, Tapper ripped into the Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff for his refusal to give up the “preposterous notion” that President Obama's ... «WND.com, Jul 15»

British woman lets Montreal student camp in her yard; in exchange …

... had made him comfortable with life in a nylon shelter, so the idea of taking on a longer-term camp-out didn't strike him as too preposterous. «Lethbridge Herald, Jul 15»

Lawmakers Resist 'Billy Joel Boulevard' Because The Piano Man Is …

... Green' mentioned in his song 'Scenes From An Italian Restaurant' folks said the argument against a Billy Joel Boulevard is preposterous. «CBS Local, Jul 15»