escabroso
Portuguese, adjective/is.kaˈbɾo.zu/
escabroso is spelled E-S-C-A-B-R-O-S-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 113,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escabroso is a Portuguese adjective meaning “horrendous, awful, terrible” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “escarpado, pedregoso, áspero, com grande declive”.
What does escabroso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
horrendous, awful, terrible
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. escarpado, pedregoso, áspero, com grande declive 2. árduo, difícil 3. contrário às conveniências, ou ao decoro
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 escabroso
- escabrosa feminine
- escabrosos masculine plural
- escabrosas feminine plural
- metaphonic feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escabroso?
- Brazil /is.kaˈbɾo.zu/
- Brazil /es.kaˈbɾo.zu/
- /iʃ.kaˈbɾo.zu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is escabroso in Portuguese?
escabroso 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).