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guloso

Portuguese, adjective/ɡuˈlo.zu/

guloso is spelled G-U-L-O-S-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guloso is a Portuguese adjective meaning “gluttonous; greedy (prone to excessive eating)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que gosta de gulodices”.

What does guloso mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    gluttonous; greedy (prone to excessive eating)

  2. 2

    sweet-toothed (fond of sweet, sugar foods)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que gosta de gulodices 2. comilão 3. esgulepado

noun: 1. aquele que gosta de gulodices

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 guloso

  • gulosa feminine
  • gulosos masculine plural
  • gulosas feminine plural
  • mais guloso comparative
  • o mais guloso superlative
  • gulosíssimo superlative
  • metaphonic superlative
  • mais gulosa comparative feminine singular
  • mais gulosos comparative masculine plural
  • mais gulosas comparative feminine plural
  • gulosíssima feminine singular superlative
  • gulosíssimos masculine plural superlative
  • gulosíssimas feminine plural superlative
  • gulosão augmentative masculine singular
  • gulosona augmentative feminine singular
  • gulosões augmentative masculine plural
  • gulosonas augmentative feminine plural
  • gulosinho diminutive masculine singular

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

How do you pronounce guloso?

  • Brazil /ɡuˈlo.zu/
  • Portugal /ɡuˈlo.zu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to guloso

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

How common is guloso in Portuguese?

guloso appears about once in every 2 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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