descompassado
Portuguese, adjective/des.kõ.paˈsa.du/
descompassado is spelled D-E-S-C-O-M-P-A-S-S-A-D-O (13 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese, the 127,225th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descompassado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “wild, rambling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que se descompassou”.
What does descompassado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
wild, rambling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que se descompassou 2. sem regularidade 3. que não tem comedimento 4. diz-se de embarcação que, devido à carga mal distribuída, não toma a linha de água que seria mais conveniente
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 descompassado
- descompassada feminine
- descompassados masculine plural
- descompassadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descompassado?
- Brazil /des.kõ.paˈsa.du/
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.kõ.paˈsa.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is descompassado in Portuguese?
descompassado appears about once in every 18 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).