Skip to main content

bombado

Portuguese, adjective/bõˈba.du/

bombado is spelled B-O-M-B-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,059th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bombado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “fit, muscular” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of bombar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que foi inflado por bomba”.

What does bombado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    informalfit, muscular

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of bombar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que foi inflado por bomba 2. que faz ou fez uso de anabolizantes, bomba 3. que faz muito sucesso, que bombou

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 bombado

  • bombada feminine
  • bombados masculine plural
  • bombadas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce bombado?

  • Brazil /bõˈba.du/
  • Portugal /bõˈba.du/
  • Portugal [bõˈba.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 bombado

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is bombado in Portuguese?

bombado appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

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

What to look up after bombado