bolado
Portuguese, adjective/boˈla.du/
bolado is spelled B-O-L-A-D-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bolado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “imagined, elaborated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of bolar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “preocupado com determinado assunto ou fato”.
What does bolado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Brazilcolloquialimagined, elaborated
- 2
Brazilslangworried, upset
- 3
Brazilslangstoned (high on drugs)
- 4
Brazilslangcool, awesome
- 5
Brazilpossessed by an orisha
verb
- 1
past participle of bolar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. preocupado com determinado assunto ou fato
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 bolado
- bolada feminine
- bolados masculine plural
- boladas feminine plural
- mais bolado comparative
- o mais bolado superlative
- boladíssimo superlative
- boladinho diminutive
- boladão augmentative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bolado?
- Brazil /boˈla.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bolado in Portuguese?
bolado appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).