desaliñado
Spanish, adjective/desaliˈɲado/
desaliñado is a Spanish adjective meaning “scruffy, slovenly, disheveled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of desaliñar. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dícese de la persona que carece de aseo o aliño”.
What does desaliñado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
scruffy, slovenly, disheveled
verb
- 1
past participle of desaliñar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Dícese de la persona que carece de aseo o aliño. 2. Desaseado o descuidado en su persona.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of desaliñado
- desaliñada feminine
- desaliñados masculine plural
- desaliñadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desaliñado?
- /desaliˈɲado/
- [d̪es.a.liˈɲa.ð̞o]
- [d̪esaliˈɲað̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desaliñado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desaliñado in Spanish?
desaliñado appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).