desvairado
Portuguese, adjective/dez.vajˈɾa.du/
desvairado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “mad, crazy, nuts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of desvairar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “louco, que perdeu o juízo”.
What does desvairado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
mad, crazy, nuts
- 2
disoriented, confused
- 3
incoherent
- 4
frantic, frenzied
verb
- 1
past participle of desvairar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. louco, que perdeu o juízo 2. furioso, exaltado 3. desorientado, confuso; inconstante, variável
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 desvairado
- desvairada feminine
- desvairados masculine plural
- desvairadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desvairado?
- Brazil /dez.vajˈɾa.du/
- Brazil [dez.vaɪ̯ˈɾa.du]
- Brazil /d͡ʒiz.vajˈɾa.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 desvairado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desvairado in Portuguese?
desvairado 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).