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  • 21 algo que rompe la armonía

    Ex. The priest is just another body, however, a dark blot on the landscape, a mere spectator who becomes transparent in the eyes of his flock.
    * * *

    Ex: The priest is just another body, however, a dark blot on the landscape, a mere spectator who becomes transparent in the eyes of his flock.

    Spanish-English dictionary > algo que rompe la armonía

  • 22 anular

    adj.
    1 ring-shaped.
    dedo anular ring finger
    2 annular, ring-shaped.
    Ricardo compró un artefacto anular Richard bought a ring-shaped artifact.
    m.
    1 ring finger (dedo).
    Elsa se quebró el anular Elsa fractured her ring finger.
    2 annular, annular ligament.
    v.
    1 to annul, to leave without effect, to abolish, to invalidate.
    El juez anuló la decisión The judge annulled the decision.
    2 to belittle, to annul, to underrate.
    Dorotea anula a su hijo Dorothy belittles her son.
    3 to chalk off.
    * * *
    1 ring-shaped
    1 ring finger
    ————————
    1 (matrimonio) to annul; (una ley) to repeal; (una sentencia) to quash
    2 (un pedido, viaje) to cancel; (un contrato) to invalidate, cancel
    3 DEPORTE (un gol) to disallow
    4 figurado (desautorizar) to deprive of authority
    1 to lose one's authority
    * * *
    verb
    1) to cancel, annul, rescind
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ contrato] to cancel, rescind; [+ ley] to repeal; [+ decisión] to override; [+ matrimonio] to annul
    2) [+ elecciones, resultado] to declare null and void; [+ gol, tanto] to disallow
    3) [+ cita, viaje, evento] to cancel
    4) [+ cheque] to cancel
    5) [+ efecto] to cancel out, destroy
    6) (Mat) to cancel out
    7) [+ persona] to overshadow
    8) frm (=incapacitar) to deprive of authority, remove from office
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo < forma> ring-shaped
    II 1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <contrato/viaje> to cancel; < matrimonio> to annul; <fallo/sentencia> to quash, overturn; < resultado> to declare... null and void; <tanto/gol> to disallow
    b) < cheque> ( destruir) to cancel; ( dar orden de no pagar) to stop
    2) < persona> to destroy
    2.
    anularse v pron (recípr)
    III
    masculino ring finger
    * * *
    = negate, nullify, override, overtake, overturn, render + valueless, render + wrong, repeal, rule out, short-circuit [shortcircuit], stultify, dope, gainsay, eviscerate, wipe out, obliterate, preempt [pre-empt], revoke, undo, waive, quash, block off, write off, blot out, overrule, void.
    Ex. Thus excessive delays in the availability of cataloguing records from the central agency will negate much of the value of a central service.
    Ex. To adopt terms or names in various languages, which are probably unfamiliar in a certain other language, would be to nullify the usefulness of that catalog to all of these users in the interest of cooperation.
    Ex. On the final screen in the sequence, the default values for today's closing time and tomorrow's opening time may be overridden.
    Ex. Why have card-based systems been overtaken by computer databases?.
    Ex. However, any refinement involves greater human intervention, and this in turn can easily overturn the arguments in favour of subject indexes based upon titles.
    Ex. The immense cultural differences facing the professions tends to render comparisons valueless.
    Ex. Further, changes in the external world serve to render judgments, valid at the moment, wrong at best, and detrimental to the effectiveness of the catalog at worst.
    Ex. I was one of the cosigners of a resolution which tried to have the ISBD repealed.
    Ex. If, however, we index documents about primary schools under the term primary school, we can immediately rule out a lot of irrelevant documents in our search.
    Ex. There is little modulation, whole steps of division being short-circuited and an odd assembly of terms being frequently found: e.g.: LAW see also JURY, JUDGES.
    Ex. Excessive standardisation also tends to stultify development and improvement of IT products.
    Ex. A photolithographic process selectively dopes minute areas of the silicon and so builds up circuits.
    Ex. We could even agree that no one in our experience is terribly interested in knowing about all of the works of an author, and this would not gainsay the value of consistent author entry.
    Ex. Also, to become emotionally wedded to a particular view is to eviscerate one's effectiveness in achieving a workable solution.
    Ex. Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex. Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex. This article concludes that the main value of the indicators is as a management tool, as a means of preempting problems.
    Ex. I would think that we would still charge for lost and damaged books and that we would revoke borrowing privileges of chronic offenders, or whatever we decide to call them.
    Ex. The National Library of Estonia, established in 1918, is undergoing a revolutionary period of undoing the effects of the cultural policies of the communist regime.
    Ex. When only partial success in contracted terms is achieved, the repayment due may be reduced or waived.
    Ex. The author brazenly insists that Woodman's family has compromised the documentation of the photographer's life by effectively quashing most of her work.
    Ex. A globalizing world so devoted to 'diversity,' as the present one is, can ill afford to block off one particular communication channel in favor of any other.
    Ex. They express concern over Povinelli's certainty in writing off that multicultural project, however.
    Ex. Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.
    Ex. President Eisenhower overruled some of his military commanders in summer 1958, ordering them not to use nuclear weapons against China.
    Ex. However, in the case when the user's input fails, we would like to void the reserved funds.
    ----
    * anular las posibilidades = close off + possibilities.
    * anular la validez de un concepto = sterilise + idea.
    * anular una posibilidad = block off + alley.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo < forma> ring-shaped
    II 1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <contrato/viaje> to cancel; < matrimonio> to annul; <fallo/sentencia> to quash, overturn; < resultado> to declare... null and void; <tanto/gol> to disallow
    b) < cheque> ( destruir) to cancel; ( dar orden de no pagar) to stop
    2) < persona> to destroy
    2.
    anularse v pron (recípr)
    III
    masculino ring finger
    * * *
    = negate, nullify, override, overtake, overturn, render + valueless, render + wrong, repeal, rule out, short-circuit [shortcircuit], stultify, dope, gainsay, eviscerate, wipe out, obliterate, preempt [pre-empt], revoke, undo, waive, quash, block off, write off, blot out, overrule, void.

    Ex: Thus excessive delays in the availability of cataloguing records from the central agency will negate much of the value of a central service.

    Ex: To adopt terms or names in various languages, which are probably unfamiliar in a certain other language, would be to nullify the usefulness of that catalog to all of these users in the interest of cooperation.
    Ex: On the final screen in the sequence, the default values for today's closing time and tomorrow's opening time may be overridden.
    Ex: Why have card-based systems been overtaken by computer databases?.
    Ex: However, any refinement involves greater human intervention, and this in turn can easily overturn the arguments in favour of subject indexes based upon titles.
    Ex: The immense cultural differences facing the professions tends to render comparisons valueless.
    Ex: Further, changes in the external world serve to render judgments, valid at the moment, wrong at best, and detrimental to the effectiveness of the catalog at worst.
    Ex: I was one of the cosigners of a resolution which tried to have the ISBD repealed.
    Ex: If, however, we index documents about primary schools under the term primary school, we can immediately rule out a lot of irrelevant documents in our search.
    Ex: There is little modulation, whole steps of division being short-circuited and an odd assembly of terms being frequently found: e.g.: LAW see also JURY, JUDGES.
    Ex: Excessive standardisation also tends to stultify development and improvement of IT products.
    Ex: A photolithographic process selectively dopes minute areas of the silicon and so builds up circuits.
    Ex: We could even agree that no one in our experience is terribly interested in knowing about all of the works of an author, and this would not gainsay the value of consistent author entry.
    Ex: Also, to become emotionally wedded to a particular view is to eviscerate one's effectiveness in achieving a workable solution.
    Ex: Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex: Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex: This article concludes that the main value of the indicators is as a management tool, as a means of preempting problems.
    Ex: I would think that we would still charge for lost and damaged books and that we would revoke borrowing privileges of chronic offenders, or whatever we decide to call them.
    Ex: The National Library of Estonia, established in 1918, is undergoing a revolutionary period of undoing the effects of the cultural policies of the communist regime.
    Ex: When only partial success in contracted terms is achieved, the repayment due may be reduced or waived.
    Ex: The author brazenly insists that Woodman's family has compromised the documentation of the photographer's life by effectively quashing most of her work.
    Ex: A globalizing world so devoted to 'diversity,' as the present one is, can ill afford to block off one particular communication channel in favor of any other.
    Ex: They express concern over Povinelli's certainty in writing off that multicultural project, however.
    Ex: Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.
    Ex: President Eisenhower overruled some of his military commanders in summer 1958, ordering them not to use nuclear weapons against China.
    Ex: However, in the case when the user's input fails, we would like to void the reserved funds.
    * anular las posibilidades = close off + possibilities.
    * anular la validez de un concepto = sterilise + idea.
    * anular una posibilidad = block off + alley.

    * * *
    ‹forma› ring-shaped dedo
    anular2 [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹contrato› to cancel, rescind; ‹matrimonio› to annul; ‹fallo/sentencia› to quash, overturn; ‹resultado› to declare … null and void; ‹tanto/gol› to disallow
    2 ‹cheque› (destruir) to cancel; (dar orden de no pagar) to stop
    3 ‹viaje/compromiso› to cancel
    B ‹persona› to destroy
    las dos fuerzas se anulan the two forces cancel each other out
    ring finger
    * * *

     

    anular verbo transitivo
    a) ‹contrato/viaje› to cancel;

    ‹ matrimonio› to annul;
    ‹fallo/sentencia› to quash, overturn;
    ‹ resultado› to declare … null and void;
    ‹tanto/gol› to disallow
    b) ‹ cheque› ( destruir) to cancel;

    ( dar orden de no pagar) to stop
    ■ sustantivo masculino
    finger ring
    anular 1 sustantivo masculino ring finger
    anular 2 verbo transitivo
    1 Com (un pedido) to cancel
    Dep (un gol) to disallow
    (un matrimonio) to annul
    Jur (una ley) to repeal
    2 Inform to delete
    3 (desautorizar, ignorar a una persona) to destroy
    ' anular' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dedo
    English:
    annul
    - cancel out
    - disallow
    - invalidate
    - negate
    - nullify
    - off
    - override
    - quash
    - rescind
    - ring finger
    - scrub
    - cancel
    - finger
    - over
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    [en forma de anillo] ring-shaped;
    dedo anular ring finger
    ♦ nm
    [dedo] ring finger
    ♦ vt
    1. [cancelar] to cancel;
    [ley] to repeal; [matrimonio, contrato] to annul
    2. Dep [partido] to call off;
    [gol] to disallow; [resultado] to declare void
    3. [restar iniciativa]
    su marido la anula totalmente she's totally dominated by her husband;
    el defensa anuló a la estrella del equipo contrario the defender marked the opposing team's star out of the game
    * * *
    1 v/t cancel; matrimonio annul; gol disallow; ley repeal
    2 adj ring-shaped;
    dedo anular ring finger
    * * *
    anular vt
    : to annul, to cancel
    * * *
    anular vb
    1. (cita, viaje, etc) to cancel [pt. & pp. cancelled]
    2. (matrimonio) to annul [pt. & pp. annulled]
    3. (gol, tanto) to disallow

    Spanish-English dictionary > anular

  • 23 mancha en + Posesivo + honor

    (n.) = blot on + Posesivo + escutcheon
    Ex. The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.
    * * *
    (n.) = blot on + Posesivo + escutcheon

    Ex: The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.

    Spanish-English dictionary > mancha en + Posesivo + honor

  • 24 manchón

    m.
    large stain, blotch, blur, smear.
    * * *
    I
    SM
    1) (=mancha) large stain, big spot
    2) (Bot) patch of dense vegetation
    II
    SM Cono Sur muff
    * * *
    = blot.
    Ex. Some editorial departments claim indexes are unnecessary and a typographical blot.
    * * *
    = blot.

    Ex: Some editorial departments claim indexes are unnecessary and a typographical blot.

    * * *
    Chile [de manos] muff

    Spanish-English dictionary > manchón

  • 25 obliterar

    v.
    to obliterate (medicine).
    María oblitera los ideales Mary obliterates the ideals.
    Ella obliteró las palabras de Ricardo She obliterated John's words.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to obliterate; (sello) to frank
    * * *
    VT
    1) (Med) [gen] to obliterate; [+ herida] to staunch
    2) (=inutilizar) to obliterate, destroy
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to obliterate
    * * *
    = obliterate, blot out, annihilate.
    Ex. Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex. Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.
    Ex. He intends to annihilate all the major world powers, until Islamic nations dominate the planet.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to obliterate
    * * *
    = obliterate, blot out, annihilate.

    Ex: Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.

    Ex: Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.
    Ex: He intends to annihilate all the major world powers, until Islamic nations dominate the planet.

    * * *
    obliterar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 (anular) to obliterate, destroy
    2 ( Med) to obliterate
    * * *

    obliterar verbo transitivo
    1 Med obliterate
    2 (borrar, hacer desaparecer) to obliterate
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. Formal [borrar, anular] to obliterate, to wipe out;
    el tiempo obliteró todos sus recuerdos time erased all his memories
    2. Med to obliterate
    * * *
    v/t
    1 fml
    huellas, recuerdos etc obliterate, wipe away
    2 MED block
    * * *
    : to obliterate, to destroy

    Spanish-English dictionary > obliterar

  • 26 ser una mancha para

    (v.) = be a blot on
    Ex. Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    * * *

    Ex: Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.

    Spanish-English dictionary > ser una mancha para

  • 27 ser una tacha para

    (v.) = be a blot on
    Ex. Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    * * *

    Ex: Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.

    Spanish-English dictionary > ser una tacha para

  • 28 borronear

    v.
    1 to scribble on.
    2 to scribble.
    * * *
    1 (escribir) to scribble
    2 (dibujar) to doodle
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=garabatear) to scribble, scrawl
    2) (=hacer borrador de) to make a rough draft of
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to smudge
    * * *
    = blot.
    Ex. Manuscript copy, as printers often complained, might be an ill-written author's draft much blotted and corrected.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to smudge
    * * *
    = blot.

    Ex: Manuscript copy, as printers often complained, might be an ill-written author's draft much blotted and corrected.

    * * *
    borronear [A1 ]
    vt
    to smudge
    me lo entregó todo borroneado he handed it in full of smudges o full of marks where he had rubbed things out
    to get smudged
    * * *

    borronear ( conjugate borronear) verbo transitivo
    to smudge
    * * *
    1. [garabatear] to scribble on
    2. [escribir deprisa] to scribble
    * * *
    v/t scribble on
    * * *
    : to smudge, to blot

    Spanish-English dictionary > borronear

  • 29 lacra

    f.
    1 blight (defecto).
    2 scar, cicatrice.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: lacrar.
    * * *
    1 (señal) mark, scar
    2 (mal) evil, scourge
    3 (defecto) fault
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Med) scar, trace; LAm (=llaga) sore, ulcer; (=costra) scab
    2) [social, moral] blot, blemish
    * * *
    femenino (Med) mark; (defecto, mancha) blight
    * * *
    = milestone, blight.
    Ex. Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.
    Ex. In Ohio State we've been trying to develop for the last fifteen years a grape that will still survive the grape blight that wiped out the vineyards in southern Ohio in the 1920s.
    * * *
    femenino (Med) mark; (defecto, mancha) blight
    * * *
    = milestone, blight.

    Ex: Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.

    Ex: In Ohio State we've been trying to develop for the last fifteen years a grape that will still survive the grape blight that wiped out the vineyards in southern Ohio in the 1920s.

    * * *
    1 ( Med) mark
    2 (defecto, mancha) blight
    3 ( Col pey) (persona) degenerate
    * * *

    Del verbo lacrar: ( conjugate lacrar)

    lacra es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    lacra    
    lacrar
    lacrar ( conjugate lacrar) verbo transitivo ( con cera) to seal
    lacra f (defecto, tara) evil, curse: la corrupción es la lacra de nuestros días, corruption is the curse of our times
    * * *
    lacra nf
    1. [secuela]
    la enfermedad le dejó como lacra una cojera he was left lame by the illness
    2. [problema] scourge;
    la lacra del terrorismo the scourge of terrorism;
    la droga se ha convertido en una lacra social drugs have become the scourge of our society
    3. [defecto] blight
    4. Am [costra] scab
    * * *
    f
    1 scar
    2 L.Am. ( llaga) sore
    3
    :
    la corrupción es una lacra social corruption is a blot on society
    * * *
    lacra nf
    1) : scar, mark (on the skin)
    2) : stigma, blemish

    Spanish-English dictionary > lacra

  • 30 paisaje

    m.
    landscape (pintura, terreno).
    * * *
    1 landscape
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=terreno) landscape
    2) (=vista panorámica)
    3) (Arte) landscape
    * * *
    a) ( panorama) landscape, scenery

    el paisaje es agreste/boscoso — it is a rugged/wooded landscape

    b) (Art) landscape
    * * *
    = landscape, scenery, countryside.
    Ex. We might define this particular area of knowledge called geography by saying that it describes and analyses the landscape.
    Ex. This article considers the research needs of those producing amateur theatre production (costumes and scenery) and suggests ways in which they may work closely with public libraries.
    Ex. Problems of community service seem to show up more clearly in the countryside.
    ----
    * algo que estropea el paisaje = a blot on the landscape.
    * arquitecto de paisajes = landscape architect.
    * arquitectura del paisaje = landscape architecture.
    * belleza del paisaje = scenic beauty.
    * cambiar el paisaje = change + the scenery.
    * formar parte del paisaje = blend into + the landscape.
    * integrarse en el paisaje = blend into + the landscape.
    * paisaje asombroso = breathtaking scenery.
    * paisaje cárstico = karst.
    * paisaje impresionante = breathtaking scenery.
    * paisaje kárstico = karst.
    * paisaje lunar = lunarscape, moonscape.
    * paisaje marítimo = seascape.
    * paisaje montañoso = mountainscape.
    * paisaje natural = natural scenery, natural landscape.
    * paisaje rural = rural countryside, rural landscape.
    * paisaje sobrecogedor = breathtaking scenery.
    * paisaje urbanístico = townscape, built environment.
    * paisaje urbano = townscape, built environment.
    * que estropea el paisaje = eyesore.
    * salpicar el paisaje = dot + the countryside.
    * * *
    a) ( panorama) landscape, scenery

    el paisaje es agreste/boscoso — it is a rugged/wooded landscape

    b) (Art) landscape
    * * *
    = landscape, scenery, countryside.

    Ex: We might define this particular area of knowledge called geography by saying that it describes and analyses the landscape.

    Ex: This article considers the research needs of those producing amateur theatre production (costumes and scenery) and suggests ways in which they may work closely with public libraries.
    Ex: Problems of community service seem to show up more clearly in the countryside.
    * algo que estropea el paisaje = a blot on the landscape.
    * arquitecto de paisajes = landscape architect.
    * arquitectura del paisaje = landscape architecture.
    * belleza del paisaje = scenic beauty.
    * cambiar el paisaje = change + the scenery.
    * formar parte del paisaje = blend into + the landscape.
    * integrarse en el paisaje = blend into + the landscape.
    * paisaje asombroso = breathtaking scenery.
    * paisaje cárstico = karst.
    * paisaje impresionante = breathtaking scenery.
    * paisaje kárstico = karst.
    * paisaje lunar = lunarscape, moonscape.
    * paisaje marítimo = seascape.
    * paisaje montañoso = mountainscape.
    * paisaje natural = natural scenery, natural landscape.
    * paisaje rural = rural countryside, rural landscape.
    * paisaje sobrecogedor = breathtaking scenery.
    * paisaje urbanístico = townscape, built environment.
    * paisaje urbano = townscape, built environment.
    * que estropea el paisaje = eyesore.
    * salpicar el paisaje = dot + the countryside.

    * * *
    1 (panorama) landscape, scenery
    la belleza del paisaje asturiano the beauty of the Asturian countryside o landscape o scenery
    en esta zona el paisaje es precioso the scenery is beautiful in this part of the country
    desde aquí se aprecia mejor el paisaje you get a better view of the countryside from here
    el terremoto alteró el paisaje the earthquake changed the landscape
    el paisaje es agreste/boscoso it is a rugged/wooded landscape
    2 ( Art) landscape
    * * *

     

    paisaje sustantivo masculino

    b) (Art) landscape

    paisaje sustantivo masculino landscape, scenery
    ' paisaje' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abrupta
    - abrupto
    - adusta
    - adusto
    - bucólica
    - bucólico
    - campo
    - fragosa
    - fragoso
    - impresionante
    - panorama
    - triste
    - afear
    - agreste
    - belleza
    - bello
    - contemplar
    - desolado
    - hermosura
    - imponente
    - otoñal
    - perspectiva
    - uniforme
    English:
    barren
    - bleak
    - breath
    - countryside
    - featureless
    - flat
    - forbidding
    - hilly
    - landscape
    - lie
    - scenery
    - stark
    - sweep
    - unspoilt
    - wild
    - blot
    - land
    * * *
    1. [terreno] landscape;
    [vista panorámica] scenery, view;
    una de las características del paisaje de esta comarca one of the features of the landscape of this area;
    un paisaje montañoso/accidentado/costero a mountainous/rugged/coastal landscape;
    se pararon a contemplar el paisaje they stopped to admire the view o scenery
    paisaje lunar moonscape, lunar landscape;
    paisaje natural unspoilt countryside
    2. [pintura] landscape
    * * *
    m landscape
    * * *
    : scenery, landscape
    * * *
    paisaje n landscape / scenery

    Spanish-English dictionary > paisaje

  • 31 altanero

    adj.
    proud, haughty, high-and-mighty, arrogant.
    * * *
    1 arrogant, haughty, conceited
    * * *
    (f. - altanera)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=altivo) haughty, arrogant
    2) [ave] high-flying
    * * *
    - ra adjetivo arrogant, haughty
    * * *
    = snooty, haughty [haughtier -comp., haughtiest -sup.], supercilious.
    Ex. Researchers expect librarians to be factually knowledgeable, welcoming, helpful and supportive rather than 'weird', ' snooty' or 'easily antagonized'.
    Ex. The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.
    Ex. A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.
    * * *
    - ra adjetivo arrogant, haughty
    * * *
    = snooty, haughty [haughtier -comp., haughtiest -sup.], supercilious.

    Ex: Researchers expect librarians to be factually knowledgeable, welcoming, helpful and supportive rather than 'weird', ' snooty' or 'easily antagonized'.

    Ex: The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.
    Ex: A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.

    * * *
    arrogant, haughty
    * * *

    altanero
    ◊ -ra adjetivo

    arrogant, haughty
    altanero,-a adjetivo arrogant

    ' altanero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    altanera
    - tono
    English:
    proud
    - supercilious
    - haughty
    - lofty
    * * *
    altanero, -a adj
    haughty
    * * *
    adj arrogant
    * * *
    altanero, -ra adj
    altivo, arrogante: arrogant, haughty

    Spanish-English dictionary > altanero

  • 32 altivo

    adj.
    1 arrogant, proud, disdainful, haughty.
    2 lofty, dignified.
    * * *
    1 haughty, arrogant, conceited
    * * *
    ADJ haughty, arrogant
    * * *
    - va adjetivo ( arrogante) arrogant, haughty; (noble, orgulloso) proud
    * * *
    = haughty [haughtier -comp., haughtiest -sup.], hoity-toity, supercilious.
    Ex. The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.
    Ex. Wine lovers get the urge to splurge and celebrate, often in hoity-toity restaurants.
    Ex. A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.
    ----
    * de modo altivo = superciliously, haughtily.
    * * *
    - va adjetivo ( arrogante) arrogant, haughty; (noble, orgulloso) proud
    * * *
    = haughty [haughtier -comp., haughtiest -sup.], hoity-toity, supercilious.

    Ex: The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.

    Ex: Wine lovers get the urge to splurge and celebrate, often in hoity-toity restaurants.
    Ex: A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.
    * de modo altivo = superciliously, haughtily.

    * * *
    altivo -va
    1 (altanero) ‹mirada/gesto› arrogant, haughty
    2 (noble, orgulloso) proud
    * * *

    altivo
    ◊ -va adjetivo ( arrogante) arrogant, haughty;


    (noble, orgulloso) proud
    altivo,-a adjetivo arrogant, haughty
    ' altivo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    altiva
    - orgullosa
    - orgulloso
    - soberbia
    - soberbio
    - alzado
    English:
    haughty
    - superior
    - lofty
    * * *
    altivo, -a adj
    haughty
    * * *
    adj proud, haughty
    * * *
    altivo, -va adj
    altanero, arrogante: arrogant, haughty

    Spanish-English dictionary > altivo

  • 33 antiestético

    adj.
    unaesthetic, ugly, unsightly, inartistic.
    * * *
    1 ugly, unsightly, unattractive
    * * *
    ADJ unsightly, ugly
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo unsightly
    * * *
    = unaesthetic, unsightly, eyesore.
    Ex. I defy anybody to say that the entries using full ISBD punctuation are in any way confusing, unattractive, unaesthetic, or whatever.
    Ex. He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex. He argues for special attention to faculty offices, landscaping, 'green' architecture, preservation of heritage buildings, removal of eyesore buildings, and safety.
    ----
    * algo antiestético = a blot on the landscape.
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo unsightly
    * * *
    = unaesthetic, unsightly, eyesore.

    Ex: I defy anybody to say that the entries using full ISBD punctuation are in any way confusing, unattractive, unaesthetic, or whatever.

    Ex: He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex: He argues for special attention to faculty offices, landscaping, 'green' architecture, preservation of heritage buildings, removal of eyesore buildings, and safety.
    * algo antiestético = a blot on the landscape.

    * * *
    unattractive
    la moda actual me resulta antiestética I think today's fashions are unattractive o ugly
    se hizo quitar esas verrugas antiestéticas he had those unsightly warts removed
    * * *

    antiestético
    ◊ -ca adjetivo

    unsightly
    antiestético,-a adjetivo unsightly

    ' antiestético' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    antiestética
    English:
    unsightly
    * * *
    antiestético, -a adj
    unsightly
    * * *
    adj unattractive, unesthetic, Br
    unaesthetic
    * * *
    antiestético, -ca adj
    : unsightly, unattractive

    Spanish-English dictionary > antiestético

  • 34 armonía

    f.
    1 harmony, agreement, concord, concordance.
    2 harmonics, harmony.
    * * *
    1 harmony
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    * * *
    femenino harmony
    * * *
    = harmonisation [harmonization, -USA], harmony, unity, harmonics.
    Ex. The difficult issue of copyright will not be resolved as the EC is not at present looking at reprography as an area of harmonization.
    Ex. A harmony is an arrangement of passages of the Bible on the same topic into parallel columns so that similarities and differences are readily compared.
    Ex. The part chosen should have a unity of its own, a wholeness that offers a complete experience without at the same time giving away everything.
    Ex. Socrates's description of astronomy and harmonics is less problematic when it is read against the background of certain Greek mathematical treatises.
    ----
    * algo que rompe la armonía = a blot on the landscape.
    * armonía racial = racial harmony.
    * armonía social = social harmony.
    * con armonía = harmoniously.
    * en armonía = harmoniously, in harmony.
    * en armonía con = in harmony with, in harness with, in keeping with, in tune with, in sync with.
    * falta de armonía = disharmony.
    * que rompe la armonía = eyesore.
    * * *
    femenino harmony
    * * *
    = harmonisation [harmonization, -USA], harmony, unity, harmonics.

    Ex: The difficult issue of copyright will not be resolved as the EC is not at present looking at reprography as an area of harmonization.

    Ex: A harmony is an arrangement of passages of the Bible on the same topic into parallel columns so that similarities and differences are readily compared.
    Ex: The part chosen should have a unity of its own, a wholeness that offers a complete experience without at the same time giving away everything.
    Ex: Socrates's description of astronomy and harmonics is less problematic when it is read against the background of certain Greek mathematical treatises.
    * algo que rompe la armonía = a blot on the landscape.
    * armonía racial = racial harmony.
    * armonía social = social harmony.
    * con armonía = harmoniously.
    * en armonía = harmoniously, in harmony.
    * en armonía con = in harmony with, in harness with, in keeping with, in tune with, in sync with.
    * falta de armonía = disharmony.
    * que rompe la armonía = eyesore.

    * * *
    1 ( Mús) harmony
    2 (de colores, estilos) harmony
    accesorios en armonía con las ricas telas de los vestidos accessories in harmony with o which complement the rich fabrics of the dresses
    3 (en relaciones) harmony
    conviven en perfecta armonía they live together in perfect harmony
    vivir en armonía con la naturaleza to live in harmony with nature
    * * *

    armonía sustantivo femenino
    harmony
    armonía sustantivo femenino harmony
    ' armonía' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    consonancia
    - discorde
    - sintonía
    - acorde
    - unidad
    English:
    accord
    - harmonics
    - harmony
    - harmonize
    * * *
    armonía, harmonía nf
    1. Mús harmony
    2. [de colores, formas] harmony
    3. [amistad] harmony;
    la falta de armonía entre los miembros del gabinete the lack of agreement within the cabinet;
    vivir en armonía con alguien to live in harmony with sb
    * * *
    f harmony
    * * *
    : harmony
    * * *
    armonía n harmony [pl. harmonies]

    Spanish-English dictionary > armonía

  • 35 arrogante

    adj.
    1 arrogant.
    2 overbearing, high-and-mighty, high-handed.
    f. & m.
    arrogant person, belittler.
    * * *
    1 (orgulloso) arrogant
    2 (gallardo) gallant, valiant, brave
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ (=altanero) arrogant, haughty; (=orgulloso) proud
    * * *
    adjetivo ( soberbio) arrogant, haughty
    * * *
    = arrogant, cocky [cockier -comp., cockiest -sup.], snobbish, snobby [snobbier -comp., snobbiest -sup.], snob, haughty [haughtier -comp., haughtiest -sup.], cocksure, overbearing, supercilious.
    Ex. Particularly in libraries, the attitude of the employee is to become arrogant toward the user.
    Ex. Bold, ambitious and in-your-face I've always considered them to be just too cocky by half.
    Ex. It was possible to identify 3 main groups who display 3 different types of attitude -- participative, delegative and ' snobbish'.
    Ex. Every one looked like death warmed up, including the snobby staff who I found far from welcoming.
    Ex. The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.
    Ex. The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.
    Ex. The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex. Overbearing parents are likely to raise obsessive kids, according to a new study.
    Ex. A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.
    * * *
    adjetivo ( soberbio) arrogant, haughty
    * * *
    = arrogant, cocky [cockier -comp., cockiest -sup.], snobbish, snobby [snobbier -comp., snobbiest -sup.], snob, haughty [haughtier -comp., haughtiest -sup.], cocksure, overbearing, supercilious.

    Ex: Particularly in libraries, the attitude of the employee is to become arrogant toward the user.

    Ex: Bold, ambitious and in-your-face I've always considered them to be just too cocky by half.
    Ex: It was possible to identify 3 main groups who display 3 different types of attitude -- participative, delegative and ' snobbish'.
    Ex: Every one looked like death warmed up, including the snobby staff who I found far from welcoming.
    Ex: The biggest faux pas according to snobs who take such things seriously is calling a sofa a couch or a setee.
    Ex: The only blot on his escutcheon is, that after his great success he grew to be haughty and insolent in his demands.
    Ex: The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Ex: Overbearing parents are likely to raise obsessive kids, according to a new study.
    Ex: A commenter took me to task for being supercilious and said it was inconsistent with my religion.

    * * *
    1 (soberbio) arrogant, haughty
    2 (gallardo) imposing, dashing
    * * *

    arrogante adjetivo
    arrogant, haughty
    arrogante adjetivo arrogant
    ' arrogante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    altivo
    - presumido
    English:
    arrogant
    - both
    - cavalier
    - haughty
    - manner
    - stiff-necked
    - superior
    - swagger
    * * *
    arrogant
    * * *
    adj arrogant
    * * *
    altanero, altivo: arrogant, haughty
    * * *
    arrogante adj arrogant

    Spanish-English dictionary > arrogante

  • 36 congregación

    f.
    congregation, crowd, assembly of people, assembly.
    * * *
    1 (reunión) assembly
    2 RELIGIÓN congregation
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=asamblea) gathering, assembly; (=sociedad) brotherhood, guild
    2) (Rel) congregation
    * * *
    1) ( junta) assembly, meeting
    2) ( orden religiosa) order; ( en el Vaticano) congregation
    * * *
    = congregation, flock, convening, concourse.
    Ex. The public library's sole reason for being is to help people get along in the world, to help school children get better grades, to help preachers write better sermons that will keep the congregation awake, to help newspapermen find facts.
    Ex. The priest is just another body, however, a dark blot on the landscape, a mere spectator who becomes transparent in the eyes of his flock.
    Ex. Convenings are one day events that focus on a specific substantive issue.
    Ex. The remains were followed by a large concourse of people and were laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery, near Bancroft Nebraska.
    ----
    * referido a una congregación de feligreses = congregational.
    * * *
    1) ( junta) assembly, meeting
    2) ( orden religiosa) order; ( en el Vaticano) congregation
    * * *
    = congregation, flock, convening, concourse.

    Ex: The public library's sole reason for being is to help people get along in the world, to help school children get better grades, to help preachers write better sermons that will keep the congregation awake, to help newspapermen find facts.

    Ex: The priest is just another body, however, a dark blot on the landscape, a mere spectator who becomes transparent in the eyes of his flock.
    Ex: Convenings are one day events that focus on a specific substantive issue.
    Ex: The remains were followed by a large concourse of people and were laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery, near Bancroft Nebraska.
    * referido a una congregación de feligreses = congregational.

    * * *
    A (junta) assembly, meeting
    B
    2 (en el Vaticano) congregation
    Compuesto:
    la congregación de los fieles the Roman Catholic Church
    * * *

    congregación sustantivo femenino congregation
    ' congregación' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    hipnótica
    - hipnótico
    English:
    sisterhood
    * * *
    1. [junta] gathering, assembly
    2. [de laicos] order
    la congregación de los fieles the Roman Catholic Church
    3. [en el Vaticano] congregation
    Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
    * * *
    f REL congregation
    * * *
    congregación nf, pl - ciones : congregation, gathering

    Spanish-English dictionary > congregación

  • 37 conmovedor

    adj.
    moving, touching, emotional, stirring.
    * * *
    1 moving, touching
    * * *
    (f. - conmovedora)
    adj.
    moving, touching
    * * *
    ADJ moving, touching, poignant
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo moving, touching
    * * *
    = poignant, moving, stirring, heart-rending, heart-rendering, touching, breathtaking, heart-wrenching.
    Ex. There was something inexpressibly poignant about the sight of the once powerful Roger Balzac sitting quiescently like a victim in a noose across the desk from him.
    Ex. Of them all, The Cosy Owl by James Banks is perhaps the most instructive and moving novel.
    Ex. We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.
    Ex. Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    Ex. The book makes harrowing reading, charting the relentless disintegration of Schumann's mental and physical faculties, with equally heart-rendering intervals of lucidity and self-awareness.
    Ex. In a world of daily genocide, where two-thirds of humanity are condemned, it is touching to see a spark of what solidarity can do.
    Ex. This breathtaking building is 213 meters long and has over 300 windows.
    Ex. Which just goes to show that truth is always, always, always more amazing, more heart-wrenching, more fantastic than anyone's imagination.
    ----
    * no conmovedor = unmoving.
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo moving, touching
    * * *
    = poignant, moving, stirring, heart-rending, heart-rendering, touching, breathtaking, heart-wrenching.

    Ex: There was something inexpressibly poignant about the sight of the once powerful Roger Balzac sitting quiescently like a victim in a noose across the desk from him.

    Ex: Of them all, The Cosy Owl by James Banks is perhaps the most instructive and moving novel.
    Ex: We must plan as best we can for known events while contriving to improvise when, as often happens, such stirring distractions occur unannounced.
    Ex: Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    Ex: The book makes harrowing reading, charting the relentless disintegration of Schumann's mental and physical faculties, with equally heart-rendering intervals of lucidity and self-awareness.
    Ex: In a world of daily genocide, where two-thirds of humanity are condemned, it is touching to see a spark of what solidarity can do.
    Ex: This breathtaking building is 213 meters long and has over 300 windows.
    Ex: Which just goes to show that truth is always, always, always more amazing, more heart-wrenching, more fantastic than anyone's imagination.
    * no conmovedor = unmoving.

    * * *
    moving, touching
    * * *

    conmovedor
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    moving, touching
    conmovedor,-ora adjetivo moving: era una escena conmovedora, it was a touching scene

    ' conmovedor' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    conmovedora
    - emocionante
    English:
    emotional
    - moving
    - poignant
    - soulful
    - stirring
    - touching
    * * *
    conmovedor, -ora adj
    moving, touching
    * * *
    adj moving
    * * *
    emocionante: moving, touching
    * * *
    conmovedor adj moving

    Spanish-English dictionary > conmovedor

  • 38 costumbres relajadas

    f.pl.
    loose morals.
    * * *
    Ex. Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.
    * * *

    Ex: Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.

    Spanish-English dictionary > costumbres relajadas

  • 39 desagradable

    adj.
    1 unpleasant.
    2 disagreeable, distasteful, unpleasant, displeasing.
    * * *
    1 disagreeable, unpleasant
    * * *
    adj.
    unpleasant, disagreeable
    * * *
    ADJ unpleasant, disagreeable más frm
    * * *
    adjetivo <respuesta/comentario> unkind; <ruido/sensación> unpleasant, disagreeable; <escena/sorpresa> unpleasant; <tiempo/clima> unpleasant, horrible
    * * *
    = off-putting, unwelcome, unpleasant, disagreeable, unkind, obnoxious, peevish, distasteful, unappealing, seamy [seamier -comp., seamiest -sup.], unsavoury [unsavory, -USA], unpalatable, unsightly, minging, abrasive, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unwholesome, insalubrious, invidious, ill-natured.
    Ex. Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.
    Ex. The faithful adherents of the ideology of the finding catalog were determined to combat the unwelcome intrusion of Panizzi's scheme before the Royal Commission.
    Ex. And, as if by way of indicating that he had thrown down the gauntlet, he added, 'I can be unpleasant. I warn you'.
    Ex. Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
    Ex. The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
    Ex. During the war a law was passed to limit the consumption of newsprint by ' obnoxious newspapers' and even reducing it to nil = Durante la guerra se aprobó una ley para limitar el consumo de papel de periódico por los llamados "periódicos detestables" e incluso reducirlo a cero.
    Ex. In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex. The physical effort of keeping tabs on people as well as the distasteful practice of checking up on staff output achieves nothing and may do considerable damage.
    Ex. In addition, it is pointed out that tourists often have a strange fascination for tragic, macabre or other equally unappealing historical sights.
    Ex. In general, the writer explains, crimes are depicted in such a way that they are associated with seamy characters who have little regard for conventional morality.
    Ex. Despite the unsavory characters, bawdiness, and amorality in several of his plays, Middleton was more committed to a single theological system than, for example, Shakespeare.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Spam is unpalatable any way it's served up: things you can do to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail'.
    Ex. He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex. Everyone is attractive to someone, there is no such thing as a minger, but there are many people who I think are minging.
    Ex. She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex. Anthony Datto thanked them for having permitted him to unburden himself and after a few desultory remarks about the nasty weather and nothing in particular, they parted.
    Ex. The text raises the possibility that there might be something unwholesome in the Buddhist obsession with hell.
    Ex. Specific actions are those which are intended to reinforce the fight against specific medical conditions related to insalubrious living.
    Ex. Within the ranks of authorship therefore there are many types of author and it is invidious to claim that one sort is necessarily 'better' than another.
    Ex. Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.
    ----
    * algo desagradable a la vista = a blot on the landscape.
    * darle a Uno escalofríos por Algo desagradable = make + Nombre + flinch.
    * de sabor desagradable = unpalatable.
    * desagradable a la vista = eyesore.
    * encontrarse con una sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening + be in store, be in for a rude awakening.
    * esperar una sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening + be in store, be in for a rude awakening.
    * lo desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * situación desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening.
    * * *
    adjetivo <respuesta/comentario> unkind; <ruido/sensación> unpleasant, disagreeable; <escena/sorpresa> unpleasant; <tiempo/clima> unpleasant, horrible
    * * *
    = off-putting, unwelcome, unpleasant, disagreeable, unkind, obnoxious, peevish, distasteful, unappealing, seamy [seamier -comp., seamiest -sup.], unsavoury [unsavory, -USA], unpalatable, unsightly, minging, abrasive, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unwholesome, insalubrious, invidious, ill-natured.

    Ex: Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.

    Ex: The faithful adherents of the ideology of the finding catalog were determined to combat the unwelcome intrusion of Panizzi's scheme before the Royal Commission.
    Ex: And, as if by way of indicating that he had thrown down the gauntlet, he added, 'I can be unpleasant. I warn you'.
    Ex: Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
    Ex: The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
    Ex: During the war a law was passed to limit the consumption of newsprint by ' obnoxious newspapers' and even reducing it to nil = Durante la guerra se aprobó una ley para limitar el consumo de papel de periódico por los llamados "periódicos detestables" e incluso reducirlo a cero.
    Ex: In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex: The physical effort of keeping tabs on people as well as the distasteful practice of checking up on staff output achieves nothing and may do considerable damage.
    Ex: In addition, it is pointed out that tourists often have a strange fascination for tragic, macabre or other equally unappealing historical sights.
    Ex: In general, the writer explains, crimes are depicted in such a way that they are associated with seamy characters who have little regard for conventional morality.
    Ex: Despite the unsavory characters, bawdiness, and amorality in several of his plays, Middleton was more committed to a single theological system than, for example, Shakespeare.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Spam is unpalatable any way it's served up: things you can do to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail'.
    Ex: He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex: Everyone is attractive to someone, there is no such thing as a minger, but there are many people who I think are minging.
    Ex: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex: Anthony Datto thanked them for having permitted him to unburden himself and after a few desultory remarks about the nasty weather and nothing in particular, they parted.
    Ex: The text raises the possibility that there might be something unwholesome in the Buddhist obsession with hell.
    Ex: Specific actions are those which are intended to reinforce the fight against specific medical conditions related to insalubrious living.
    Ex: Within the ranks of authorship therefore there are many types of author and it is invidious to claim that one sort is necessarily 'better' than another.
    Ex: Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.
    * algo desagradable a la vista = a blot on the landscape.
    * darle a Uno escalofríos por Algo desagradable = make + Nombre + flinch.
    * de sabor desagradable = unpalatable.
    * desagradable a la vista = eyesore.
    * encontrarse con una sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening + be in store, be in for a rude awakening.
    * esperar una sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening + be in store, be in for a rude awakening.
    * lo desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * situación desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening.

    * * *
    ‹respuesta/comentario› unkind; ‹sabor/ruido/sensación› unpleasant, disagreeable; ‹escena› horrible
    estuvo realmente desagradable conmigo he was really unpleasant to me
    ¡no seas tan desagradable! dale una oportunidad don't be so mean o unkind! give him a chance
    ¡qué tiempo más desagradable! what nasty o horrible weather
    hacía un día bastante desagradable the weather was rather unpleasant, it was a rather unpleasant day
    se llevó una sorpresa desagradable she got a nasty o an unpleasant surprise
    * * *

     

    desagradable adjetivo
    unpleasant;
    ‹respuesta/comentario› unkind
    desagradable adjetivo unpleasant, disagreeable: hay un olor desagradable, there's an unpleasant smell
    es una persona muy desagradable, he's really disagreeable
    ' desagradable' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    escopetazo
    - fresca
    - fresco
    - graznido
    - grosera
    - grosero
    - gustillo
    - horrorosa
    - horroroso
    - impresión
    - marrón
    - palma
    - sensación
    - terrible
    - terrorífica
    - terrorífico
    - chocante
    - ingrato
    - mal
    - shock
    English:
    bullet
    - business
    - creep
    - dirty
    - disagreeable
    - distasteful
    - emptiness
    - filthy
    - hard
    - ill-natured
    - miserable
    - nasty
    - off
    - off-putting
    - rude
    - thankless
    - ugly
    - unkind
    - unpleasant
    - unsavory
    - unsavoury
    - unwelcome
    - why
    - home
    - objectionable
    - offensive
    - painful
    - peevish
    - unpalatable
    - unwholesome
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [sensación, tiempo, escena] unpleasant;
    no voy a salir, la tarde está muy desagradable I'm not going to go out, the weather's turned quite nasty this afternoon;
    una desagradable sorpresa an unpleasant o a nasty surprise
    2. [persona, comentario, contestación] unpleasant;
    está muy desagradable con su familia he's very unpleasant to his family;
    no seas desagradable y ven con nosotros al cine don't be unsociable, come to the cinema with us
    ♦ nmf
    son unos desagradables they're unpleasant people
    * * *
    adj unpleasant, disagreeable
    * * *
    : unpleasant, disagreeable
    * * *
    desagradable adj unpleasant

    Spanish-English dictionary > desagradable

  • 40 desgarrador

    adj.
    heartbreaking, harrowing, tearing, heartrending.
    * * *
    1 heartbreaking, heart-rending
    2 (aterrador) bloodcurdling
    * * *
    ADJ [escena, noticia] heartbreaking, heartrending; [grito] piercing; [emoción] heartrending
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo heartbreaking, heartrending
    * * *
    = lancinating, heart-rending, heart-rendering, gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching, heartbreaking.
    Ex. The personnel officer experienced an involuntary shiver as the lancinating reality of the board's decision sank in.
    Ex. Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    Ex. The book makes harrowing reading, charting the relentless disintegration of Schumann's mental and physical faculties, with equally heart-rendering intervals of lucidity and self-awareness.
    Ex. In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex. Which just goes to show that truth is always, always, always more amazing, more heart-wrenching, more fantastic than anyone's imagination.
    Ex. These are some of the most gripping, and most heartbreaking, pictures so far from Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday's devastating earthquake.
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo heartbreaking, heartrending
    * * *
    = lancinating, heart-rending, heart-rendering, gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching, heartbreaking.

    Ex: The personnel officer experienced an involuntary shiver as the lancinating reality of the board's decision sank in.

    Ex: Their heart-rending plight stretching over centuries is a blot on Indian civilization.
    Ex: The book makes harrowing reading, charting the relentless disintegration of Schumann's mental and physical faculties, with equally heart-rendering intervals of lucidity and self-awareness.
    Ex: In these gut-wrenching times it's important to know who the strongest, healthiest providers are to keep your money out of harm's way!.
    Ex: Which just goes to show that truth is always, always, always more amazing, more heart-wrenching, more fantastic than anyone's imagination.
    Ex: These are some of the most gripping, and most heartbreaking, pictures so far from Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday's devastating earthquake.

    * * *
    heartbreaking, heartrending
    * * *

    desgarrador
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    heartbreaking, heartrending
    desgarrador,-ora adjetivo
    1 (que causa pena, angustia) heart-rending
    2 (que causa horror) bloodcurdling

    ' desgarrador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desgarradora
    English:
    heart-breaking
    - harrowing
    - heart
    - piercing
    * * *
    desgarrador, -ora adj
    [grito] piercing; [llanto] heart-rending; [noticia] harrowing; [tragedia] terrible
    * * *
    adj heart-rending
    * * *
    : heartrending, heartbreaking

    Spanish-English dictionary > desgarrador

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