English to Icelandic Meaning of ersatz - ersatz

Ersatz :

ersatz

noun

Ersatz :: ersatzErsatzes :: ersatzes

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Definitions of ersatz in English

Noun(1) an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
Adjective(1) artificial and inferior

Examples of ersatz in English

(1) There is nothing ersatz in this polished Edwardian pile, save fake coal fires in secondary rooms.(2) McAlmont is capable of real emotion, not Armstrong's ersatz approximation of feeling.(3) Anyone who's down in West Dorset and likes their country pubs real and not ersatz should give either, or preferably both, a whirl.(4) Those two songs have proved remarkably prescient in their bogus rebellion and ersatz torment.(5) But while those attributes may satisfy your clients' practical side, the product's ersatz appearance may leave some of them feeling a little unsatisfied.(6) Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.(7) In the end, ersatz haggis was produced by our polite hosts.(8) Think of the Phoenix-area canals as ersatz rivers, as man-made, tidier, vastly simplified rivers.(9) Some of us have props: racing programs, and glasses of ersatz beer.(10) So, instead of entering the dark, airless fug that was Swansea's top coffee shop, I grabbed a take-out burger and ersatz coffee from a burger joint and sat outside to listen to the songs.(11) An egregious example of this tendency is the architect whose assembly-line production of faux rococo and ersatz neo-classical facades has transmogrified Mumbai's cityscape.(12) I don't know if they have reserved occupations over there but I can see them in my head, sitting by the slipways drinking their ersatz coffee.(13) An all the remaining ersatz relatives discover that emotions and motives aside, it's poverty and anonymity that truly sucks.(14) The ersatz emotions that crawl out of the woodwork with every hit make me instinctively reach for the bug spray.(15) See they never had any coffee in Europe, it was what they call ersatz coffee, and this was made out of kind of charred acorns and they'd grind it up and that was their so-called coffee.(16) Today's football-related flag-flying is a pale imitation of that traditional nationalism, a sort of ersatz English patriotism that means little or nothing in political terms.

(1) fatal error ::

banvæn mistök

(2) error code ::

villumelding

(3) trial and error ::

læra af mistökum

(4) error message ::

villu skilaboð

(5) system error ::

kerfisvilla

(6) syntax error ::

málskipanarvilla

(7) typing error ::

vélritun villa

(8) error correction ::

villuleiðréttingu

(9) critical error ::

Alvarleg villa

(10) human error ::

mannleg mistök

Synonyms

Adjective

1. artificial ::

gervi

2. substitute ::

staðinn

3. imitation ::

eftirlíkingu

4. synthetic ::

tilbúið

5. fake ::

falsa

7. faux ::

axarskaft

8. mock ::

spotta

9. simulated ::

herma

10. pseudo ::

gervi

11. sham ::

Sham

12. bogus ::

svikinn

13. spurious ::

spurious

14. counterfeit ::

fölsun

16. man-made ::

manngerðum

17. phony ::

phony

18. wannabe ::

Wannabe

Antonyms

1. genuine ::

ósvikinn

2. natural ::

eðlilegt

3. real ::

Real

Different Forms

ersatz, ersatzes

Word Example from TV Shows

It might explain why the two of you have created an ERSATZ homosexual marriage...

The Big Bang Theory Season 2, Episode 15

Okay, just for the record, we're not in an ERSATZ homosexual relationship.

The Big Bang Theory Season 2, Episode 15

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