desalmado
Portuguese, adjective/de.zawˈma.du/
desalmado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “heartless, soulless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cruel, desumano”.
What does desalmado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
heartless, soulless
- 2
ruthless
- 3
cruel
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. cruel, desumano
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 desalmado
- desalmada feminine
- desalmados masculine plural
- desalmadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desalmado?
- Brazil /de.zawˈma.du/
- Brazil [de.zaʊ̯ˈma.du]
- Portugal /dɨ.zalˈma.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desalmado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desalmado in Portuguese?
desalmado appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).