descurar
Portuguese, verb/des.kuˈɾa(ʁ)/
descurar is spelled D-E-S-C-U-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 114,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Descurar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to neglect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “não curar de”.
What does descurar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to neglect
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. não curar de 2. desprezar; abandonar 3. não tratar, não cuidar
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 descurar
- descuro first-person present singular
- descurei first-person preterite singular
- descurado participle past
- descurares infinitive second-person singular
- descurarmos first-person infinitive plural
- descurardes infinitive plural second-person
- descurarem infinitive plural third-person
- descurando gerund
- descurados masculine participle past
- descurada feminine participle past
- descuradas feminine participle past
- descuras indicative present second-person
- descura indicative present singular
- descuramos first-person indicative plural
- descurais indicative plural present
- descuram indicative plural present
- descurava first-person imperfect indicative
- descuravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descurar?
- Brazil /des.kuˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [des.kuˈɾa(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒis.kuˈɾa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to descurar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is descurar in Portuguese?
descurar appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).