desdenhar
Portuguese, verb/dez.dẽˈɲa(ʁ)/
desdenhar is spelled D-E-S-D-E-N-H-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese, the 87,166th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desdenhar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to despise; to detest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mostrar ou ter desdém por”.
What does desdenhar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to despise; to detest
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mostrar ou ter desdém por 2. desprezar, repudiar, menosprezar
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 desdenhar
- desdenho first-person present singular
- desdenhei first-person preterite singular
- desdenhado participle past
- desdenhares infinitive second-person singular
- desdenharmos first-person infinitive plural
- desdenhardes infinitive plural second-person
- desdenharem infinitive plural third-person
- desdenhando gerund
- desdenhados masculine participle past
- desdenhada feminine participle past
- desdenhadas feminine participle past
- desdenhas indicative present second-person
- desdenha indicative present singular
- desdenhamos first-person indicative plural
- desdenhais indicative plural present
- desdenham indicative plural present
- desdenhava first-person imperfect indicative
- desdenhavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desdenhar?
- Brazil /dez.dẽˈɲa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.dẽˈj̃a(h)]
- /dez.dẽˈɲa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desdenhar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desdenhar in Portuguese?
desdenhar appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).