Adjectives

Question 1

overweening

Answer 1

To describe someone as overweening is to say that they are arrogant and unduly proud. Overweening also disapprovingly describes qualities or desires, such as greed or ambition, that are seen as excessive.

It’s hard for people to believe every word in speeches by overweening

anmaßend

Question 2

fecund

Answer 2

Fecund is a formal word that typically describes a person, animal, or plant that is producing or able to produce many offspring. It is synonymous with fertile and fruitful. Fecund is also used figuratively to describe something especially intellectually productive or inventive, as in “a fecund source of ideas.”

fruchtbar

Question 3

palatable

Answer 3

1: agreeable to the palate or taste
The restaurant’s chicken dishes are quite palatable.
2: agreeable or acceptable to the mind
attempted to make physics palatable to a broader range of students

genießbar

Question 4

antediluvian

Answer 4

vorsintflutlich

Question 5

hoity-toity

Answer 5

Someone or something described as hoity-toity may also be called snooty or pretentious; hoity-toity people appear to think that they are better, smarter, or more important than other people, and hoity-toity places and things seem to be made for those same people. An informal word, hoity-toity is a synonym of pompous, fancy, and hifalutin.

hochnäsig, etepetete

Question 6

gullible

Answer 6

leichtgläubig

Question 7

precocious

Answer 7

altklug

Question 8

painstaking

Answer 8

akribisch, sorgfältig, gewissenhaft