piroso
Portuguese, adjective/piˈɾo.zu/
piroso is spelled P-I-R-O-S-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese, the 96,549th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piroso is a Portuguese adjective meaning “tacky (of low quality or poor taste)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “de má aparência quando se trata, por exemplo, de roupas, traje, objetos”.
What does piroso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
colloquialderogatorytacky (of low quality or poor taste)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. de má aparência quando se trata, por exemplo, de roupas, traje, objetos
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 piroso
- pirosa feminine
- pirosos masculine plural
- pirosas feminine plural
- mais piroso comparative
- o mais piroso superlative
- pirosíssimo superlative
- pirosinho diminutive
- pirosão augmentative
- metaphonic augmentative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piroso?
- Brazil /piˈɾo.zu/
- Portugal /piˈɾo.zu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is piroso in Portuguese?
piroso appears about once in every 10 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).