ostentoso
Portuguese, adjective/os.tẽˈto.zu/
ostentoso is spelled O-S-T-E-N-T-O-S-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese, the 166,096th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ostentoso is a Portuguese adjective meaning “ostentatious, flashy, showy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que é feito com ostentação”.
What does ostentoso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
ostentatious, flashy, showy
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que é feito com ostentação 2. que manifesta ostentação 3. pomposo, aparatoso, vaidoso
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 ostentoso
- ostentosa feminine
- ostentosos masculine plural
- ostentosas 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 ostentoso?
- Brazil /os.tẽˈto.zu/
- /oʃ.tẽˈto.zu/
- Portugal /ɔʃ.tẽˈto.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 ostentoso
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ostentoso in Portuguese?
ostentoso appears about once in every 33 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).