animado
Portuguese, adjective/a.niˈma.du/
animado is spelled A-N-I-M-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 4,799th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Animado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “cheerful; joyful; vivacious (noticeably happy and optimistic)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of animar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “entusiasmado”.
What does animado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cheerful; joyful; vivacious (noticeably happy and optimistic)
- 2
lively; vigorous (endowed with life)
- 3
animated (in the format of an animated cartoon)
- 4
aroused
verb
- 1
past participle of animar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. entusiasmado 2. movimentado
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of animado
- animada feminine
- animados masculine plural
- animadas feminine plural
- mais animado comparative
- o mais animado superlative
- animadíssimo superlative
- animadinho diminutive
- animadão augmentative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce animado?
- Brazil /a.niˈma.du/
- Portugal /ɐ.niˈma.du/
- Portugal [ɐ.niˈma.ðu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to animado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is animado in Portuguese?
animado appears 17 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).