desalentado
Portuguese, adjective/de.za.lẽˈta.du/
desalentado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “dejected” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of desalentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desanimado”.
What does desalentado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dejected
verb
- 1
past participle of desalentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. desanimado 2. cansado 3. extenuado
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 desalentado
- desalentada feminine
- desalentados masculine plural
- desalentadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desalentado?
- Brazil /de.za.lẽˈta.du/
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.za.lẽˈta.du/
- Portugal /dɨ.zɐ.lẽˈta.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desalentado in Portuguese?
desalentado appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).