zakompleksiony

English translation: (have) an inferiority complex

18:22 Oct 6, 2017
Polish to English translations [PRO]
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Polish term or phrase: zakompleksiony
nie jest to tlumaczenie zadnego tekstu

chodzi o mowe potoczna, chyba ze jest jakies tlumaczenie trafne w troszeczke wyzszym rejestrze niz mowa potoczna. w pol-
urzedowym ze tak sie wyraze

bez zadnych haczykow, chodzi mi o uchwycenie i przeniezsienie tego zakompleksienia na ang

zakompleksienia szeroko pojetego

choroba umyslu/ wkurzajace zachowanie kogos podyktowane zakompleksieniem

osoba zakompleksiona

ten gosciu musi byc niezle zakompleksiony sadzac po tym jak on sie zachowuje
Robert Adamowicz
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:15
English translation:(have) an inferiority complex
Explanation:
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Egomaniac with an Inferiority Complex: Signs and Symptoms - Your First Step
https://yourfirststep.org › explaining-ego...
May 10, 2016 · There are several major signs that someone struggles with being an egomaniac and has an inferiority complex.
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Darius Saczuk
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Summary of answers provided
3(have) an inferiority complex
Darius Saczuk
3hung up/with plenty of hang ups/having plenty of hang ups/insecure
Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
3self-conscious
The Kat (X)
3full of complexes
Mariusz Koch
3mass of insecurities
geopiet
2have (such) a massive/crippling insecurity complex
mike23


  

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(have) an inferiority complex


Explanation:
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Note added at 6 mins (2017-10-06 18:29:17 GMT)
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Egomaniac with an Inferiority Complex: Signs and Symptoms - Your First Step
https://yourfirststep.org › explaining-ego...
May 10, 2016 · There are several major signs that someone struggles with being an egomaniac and has an inferiority complex.

Darius Saczuk
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hung up/with plenty of hang ups/having plenty of hang ups/insecure


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Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
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self-conscious


Explanation:
Self-conscious - uncomfortable about yourself and worried about disapproval from other people.
Zakompleksiony - potocznie: taki, który ma kompleksy (poczucie winy, niepewności); wstydliwy, zakompleksiały

Could also be "insecure".


    Reference: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/self-c...
The Kat (X)
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nieźle zakompleksiony
have (such) a massive/crippling insecurity complex


Explanation:
have (such) a massive/crippling insecurity complex

mike23
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full of complexes


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https://translatica.pl/translatica/po-angielsku/zakompleksio...

https://ling.pl/slownik/polsko-angielski/zakompleksiony

2.1informal A strong or disproportionate concern or anxiety about something.
‘there's no point having a complex about losing your hair’
More example sentences
‘But for the first time, many Americans were sophisticated enough to have developed a cultural inferiority complex.’
‘He was also a bookworm who had a complex about his family's poverty and a fan of kung fu and violent movies.’
‘Perhaps I should get a complex about the Jonah joke.’
‘Since then, the girl had believed she was not photogenic and gradually developed an inferiority complex.’
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/complex

Mariusz Koch
United Kingdom
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mass of insecurities


Explanation:
You thought he'd be chill and laid back, but he's a quivering mass of insecurities and problems. - https://www.bolde.com/if-hes-emotionally-immature-gtfo/

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All those successful, senior people have a mass of insecurities. - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119206460.par...

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I tell people time and time again, “I write up my essays because I screw things up so often that I have to keep notes. I am not a together person. I am a teeming mass of insecurities. - http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/2012/08/relationships...

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He's a mass of insecurities — defensive about his schooling, constantly seeking approval, afraid to turn work down and filled with self-reproach

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- Most unwed people under 40 are a seething mass of insecurities

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... busyness is a compulsion, a compulsion that hides a mass of insecurities and fears ....

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She's a powder keg of insecurities and resentment waiting to detonate.

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