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desencorajado

Portuguese, verb

desencorajado is spelled D-E-S-E-N-C-O-R-A-J-A-D-O (13 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,181st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desencorajado is a Portuguese verb meaning “past participle of desencorajar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does desencorajado mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of desencorajar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. sem coragem, medroso.

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 desencorajado

  • desencorajada feminine
  • desencorajados masculine plural
  • desencorajadas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to desencorajado

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is desencorajado in Portuguese?

desencorajado appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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