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General subject: pernickety job, persnickety job, slippery business, slippy business (condition) (положение) -
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I Adj. (verwickelt) complicated; (langatmig) longwinded; (pedantisch) pedantic; (ungeschickt) awkward; (unnötig gründlich) fussy; das ist viel zu umständlich that’s far too much trouble, that’s much too complicated; umständliche Methode auch roundabout way of doing s.th. ( oder it); er hat so eine umständliche Art he has such a roundabout ( oder fiddly) way of doing things; sei doch nicht so umständlich! umg. don’t make such a palaver (Am. a big deal)!II Adv. awkwardly; fussily, pedantically etc.; siehe I; etw. umständlich erzählen narrate at great length, give a longwinded account of; umständlicher geht’s wohl nicht? iro. couldn’t you think of a more complicated way of doing it?; warum einfach, wenn’s auch umständlich geht iro. why make things easy when you can make them difficult?* * *longwinded; pedantic; elaborate; laborious; complicated; ponderous* * *ụm|ständ|lich ['ʊmʃtɛntlɪç]1. adjArbeitsweise, Methode (awkward and) involved; (= langsam und ungeschickt) ponderous; Vorbereitung elaborate; Begriff, Erklärung, Übersetzung, Titel, Anleitung long-winded; Abfertigung laborious, tedious; Arbeit, Reise awkwardsei doch nicht so umständlich! — don't make such heavy weather of everything! (Brit), don't make everything twice as hard as it really is!
2. adverklären, fragen, formulieren in a roundabout way; arbeiten, vorgehen awkwardlyetw umständlich machen — to make heavy weather of doing sth (Brit), to make doing sth seem twice as hard
etw umständlich erzählen/erklären etc — to tell/explain etc sth in a roundabout way
* * *um·ständ·lich[ˈʊmʃtɛntlɪç]I. adj1. (weitschweifig: Erklärung, Formulierung) long-winded, ponderous2. (mit großem Aufwand verbunden) laborious; (Anweisung, Beschreibung) elaborate, involved; (Aufgabe, Reise) complicated, awkward; (Erklärung, Anleitung) long-winded▪ \umständlich sein to be a [lot of] bother, to be inconvenient; (Erklärung, Anleitung) to be long-winded▪ \umständlich sein, etw zu tun to be a [real [or a lot of]] bother [or inconvenience] to do sth▪ etw ist jdm zu \umständlich sth's too much [of a] bother for sbII. adv2. (mühselig und aufwändig) laboriously, with some bother* * *1.Adjektiv involved, elaborate <procedure, method, description, explanation, etc.>; awkward, difficult <journey, job>; (kompliziert) involved; complicated; (weitschweifig) long-winded; (Umstände machend) awkward, (coll.) pernickety < person>2.adverbial in an involved or roundabout way; (weitschweifig) <explain etc.> at great length or in a long-winded waywarum einfach, wenn's auch umständlich geht? — (iron.) why do things the easy way if you can make them difficult? (iron.)
* * *A. adj (verwickelt) complicated; (langatmig) longwinded; (pedantisch) pedantic; (ungeschickt) awkward; (unnötig gründlich) fussy;das ist viel zu umständlich that’s far too much trouble, that’s much too complicated;er hat so eine umständliche Art he has such a roundabout ( oder fiddly) way of doing things;sei doch nicht so umständlich! umg don’t make such a palaver (US a big deal)!B. adv awkwardly; fussily, pedantically etc; → A;umständlich erzählen narrate at great length, give a longwinded account of;umständlicher geht’s wohl nicht? iron couldn’t you think of a more complicated way of doing it?;warum einfach, wenn’s auch umständlich geht iron why make things easy when you can make them difficult?* * *1.Adjektiv involved, elaborate <procedure, method, description, explanation, etc.>; awkward, difficult <journey, job>; (kompliziert) involved; complicated; (weitschweifig) long-winded; (Umstände machend) awkward, (coll.) pernickety < person>2.adverbial in an involved or roundabout way; (weitschweifig) <explain etc.> at great length or in a long-winded waywarum einfach, wenn's auch umständlich geht? — (iron.) why do things the easy way if you can make them difficult? (iron.)
* * *adj.circumstantial adj.long winded adj. adv.circumstantially adv.intricately adv.
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