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antipessoal

Portuguese, adjective/ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.pe.soˈaw/

antipessoal is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “anti-personnel (intended to harm people)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does antipessoal mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    femininemasculineanti-personnel (intended to harm people)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of antipessoal

  • antipessoais plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce antipessoal?

  • Brazil /ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.pe.soˈaw/
  • Brazil [ˌɐ̃.t͡ʃi.pe.soˈaʊ̯]
  • Portugal /ˌɐ̃.ti.pɨˈswal/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is antipessoal in Portuguese?

antipessoal appears about once in every 42 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).