esperançado
Portuguese, adjective/is.pe.ɾɐ̃ˈsa.du/
esperançado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “hopeful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of esperançar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que ocasionou ou possuiu esperança”.
What does esperançado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
hopeful
- 2
confident, optimistic
verb
- 1
past participle of esperançar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que ocasionou ou possuiu esperança 2. animado
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 esperançado
- esperançada feminine
- esperançados masculine plural
- esperançadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce esperançado?
- Brazil /is.pe.ɾɐ̃ˈsa.du/
- Brazil /es.pe.ɾɐ̃ˈsa.du/
- /iʃ.pe.ɾɐ̃ˈsa.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is esperançado in Portuguese?
esperançado appears about once in every 25 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).