tarado
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /taˈɾa.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /taˈɾa.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɐˈɾa.du/ [tɐˈɾa.ðu]
Spanish
Etymology
From tarar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taˈɾado/ [t̪aˈɾa.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: ta‧ra‧do
Adjective
tarado (feminine tarada, masculine plural tarados, feminine plural taradas)
- stupid, dumb
- faulty, deficient
- Synonyms: dañado, defectuoso, deficiente, fallado, imperfecto, malogrado
Usage notes
- Although in some contexts zonzo, bobo, tonto, menso, culero, tarado, idiota, imbécil, estúpido and pendejo may be synonyms, in most contexts these adjectives each have a different degree of severity, with zonzo having the mildest connotation, increasing in intensity in this rough order, to estúpido and pendejo, which have the most offensive sense.
Related terms
Participle
tarado (feminine tarada, masculine plural tarados, feminine plural taradas)
- past participle of tarar
Further reading
- “tarado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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