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  • 21 convincente

    adj.
    convincing.
    * * *
    1 convincing
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    * * *
    adjetivo convincing
    * * *
    = conclusive, convincing, credible, plausible, compelling, cogent, powerful, persuasive.
    Ex. It certainly cannot be called a conclusive or exhaustive guide to library resources.
    Ex. Among the documents that are worthy of consideration for abstracting are final reports, or other reports well supported by sound methodology and convincing evidence.
    Ex. The problem was to produce a credible operational definition of the term 'information education'.
    Ex. This incompleteness of search and retrieval therefore makes possible, and plausible, the existence of undiscovered public knowledge.
    Ex. This article examines the facets of the fee-or-free controversy and presents a compelling case that the issue is far from resolved.
    Ex. Children's librarians must plan to meet children's needs, and must be able to articulate the philosophy of children's library services in cogent terms.
    Ex. This book is a powerful eyewitness account of the Holocaust & how it affected both victims & oppressors.
    Ex. It has since been echoed repeatedly in the discussion of cataloging despite the persuasive and decisive refutation of it by Panizzi before the Royal Commission.
    ----
    * de modo convincente = cogently, unconvincingly.
    * de un modo convincente = convincingly, forcibly.
    * evidencia convincente = convincing evidence.
    * excusa poco convincente = lame excuse.
    * poco convincente = unconvincing, inconclusive, pat, feeble.
    * presentación de un proyecto de manera convincente = business case.
    * pretexto poco convincente = lame excuse.
    * pruebas convincentes = convincing evidence.
    * razón convincente = compelling reason.
    * * *
    adjetivo convincing
    * * *
    = conclusive, convincing, credible, plausible, compelling, cogent, powerful, persuasive.

    Ex: It certainly cannot be called a conclusive or exhaustive guide to library resources.

    Ex: Among the documents that are worthy of consideration for abstracting are final reports, or other reports well supported by sound methodology and convincing evidence.
    Ex: The problem was to produce a credible operational definition of the term 'information education'.
    Ex: This incompleteness of search and retrieval therefore makes possible, and plausible, the existence of undiscovered public knowledge.
    Ex: This article examines the facets of the fee-or-free controversy and presents a compelling case that the issue is far from resolved.
    Ex: Children's librarians must plan to meet children's needs, and must be able to articulate the philosophy of children's library services in cogent terms.
    Ex: This book is a powerful eyewitness account of the Holocaust & how it affected both victims & oppressors.
    Ex: It has since been echoed repeatedly in the discussion of cataloging despite the persuasive and decisive refutation of it by Panizzi before the Royal Commission.
    * de modo convincente = cogently, unconvincingly.
    * de un modo convincente = convincingly, forcibly.
    * evidencia convincente = convincing evidence.
    * excusa poco convincente = lame excuse.
    * poco convincente = unconvincing, inconclusive, pat, feeble.
    * presentación de un proyecto de manera convincente = business case.
    * pretexto poco convincente = lame excuse.
    * pruebas convincentes = convincing evidence.
    * razón convincente = compelling reason.

    * * *
    convincing
    no estuvo muy convincente en sus explicaciones his explanations weren't very convincing
    * * *

    convincente adjetivo
    convincing
    convincente adjetivo convincing
    ' convincente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    contundente
    English:
    cogent
    - compelling
    - convincing
    - die out
    - forceful
    - lame
    - plausible
    - powerful
    - ring
    - sell
    - tenuous
    - unconvincing
    - weak
    - argue
    - explain
    - persuasive
    - strength
    - unsatisfactory
    * * *
    convincing
    * * *
    adj convincing
    * * *
    : convincing

    Spanish-English dictionary > convincente

  • 22 debilucho

    adj.
    weakling, feeblish, anemic, feeble.
    m.
    weak person, feeble person, weed.
    * * *
    1 peyorativo weak, frail, delicate
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 weakling
    * * *
    = weakling, runt, nesh, weedy [weedier -comp., weediest -sup.], wimpy [wimpier -comp., wimpiest -sup.], wimpish.
    Ex. According to Safire, when a slice a cake was put before him Putin said 'Sweets are for weaklings and children'.
    Ex. Under the same regimens of treatment the number of runts produced varied from none to as much as 80 per cent of the litter.
    Ex. Usually, half of us would sleep on the ground outside and the other half would go for the nesh option of sleeping in a tent or hut.
    Ex. Shock as boofy blokes beat weedy intellectual in popularity contest.
    Ex. I am the wimpiest wimp who ever wimped when it comes to surgery.
    Ex. What is not true is the assumption that art that is modest and discreet automatically lacks nerve and is intrinsically boring and wimpish.
    * * *
    = weakling, runt, nesh, weedy [weedier -comp., weediest -sup.], wimpy [wimpier -comp., wimpiest -sup.], wimpish.

    Ex: According to Safire, when a slice a cake was put before him Putin said 'Sweets are for weaklings and children'.

    Ex: Under the same regimens of treatment the number of runts produced varied from none to as much as 80 per cent of the litter.
    Ex: Usually, half of us would sleep on the ground outside and the other half would go for the nesh option of sleeping in a tent or hut.
    Ex: Shock as boofy blokes beat weedy intellectual in popularity contest.
    Ex: I am the wimpiest wimp who ever wimped when it comes to surgery.
    Ex: What is not true is the assumption that art that is modest and discreet automatically lacks nerve and is intrinsically boring and wimpish.

    * * *
    debilucho, -a Fam
    ♦ adj
    weak
    ♦ nm,f
    weakling
    * * *
    debilucho, - cha adj
    : weak, frail
    : weakling

    Spanish-English dictionary > debilucho

  • 23 desgastado

    adj.
    1 worn-out, dog-eared, well-worn.
    2 raggedy.
    3 exhausted.
    4 trite.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: desgastar.
    * * *
    ADJ [zapato, ropa] worn-out; [tacones] worn down; [moqueta, tejido] worn; [neumático] bald
    * * *
    = worn, timeworn.
    Ex. Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex. In the crest of the timeworn Black Mountains lies the summit of Mount Mitchell, the highest point east of the Mississippi.
    * * *
    = worn, timeworn.

    Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.

    Ex: In the crest of the timeworn Black Mountains lies the summit of Mount Mitchell, the highest point east of the Mississippi.

    * * *
    desgastado, -a adj
    worn
    * * *
    adj worn out

    Spanish-English dictionary > desgastado

  • 24 estúpido

    adj.
    1 stupid, foolish, dumb, empty-headed.
    2 stupid, foolish, inane, dumb.
    m.
    stupid, nitwit, fathead, numbskull.
    * * *
    1 stupid, silly
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 berk, idiot
    * * *
    1. (f. - estúpida)
    adj.
    2. (f. - estúpida)
    noun f.
    * * *
    estúpido, -a
    1.
    ADJ stupid
    2.
    SM / F idiot
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/argumento> stupid, silly

    ay, qué estúpida soy! — oh, how stupid of me!

    II
    - da masculino, femenino idiot, fool
    * * *
    = crazy [crazier -comp., craziest -sup.], dummy, foolish, silly, mindless, moron, stupid, daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], mad, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.], nuts, witless, bonehead, boneheaded, twit, dolally tap, dolally [do-lally], imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], brainless, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], twat, nonsensical, mug, berk, prick, cretin, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], dits, ditz, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, duffer, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, off + Posesivo + knocker, off + Posesivo + rocker, dork, moonstruck, plonker.
    Ex. Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.
    Ex. We are too prone to be dummy people by day, and thinking, articulate individuals only in the safety of home and leisure.
    Ex. It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.
    Ex. In conclusion, I am sure you all believe me to be either idealistic, unrealistic, radical, or just plain silly.
    Ex. By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.
    Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex. When any librarian is trying to find material on behalf of a user from a poor citation it leads to that librarian appearing slow and stupid to the user.
    Ex. Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.
    Ex. When J D Brown allowed the public of Islington to have open access to the books in the 1890s he was regarded by many of his colleagues as mad!.
    Ex. Techniques such as the automatic detection of anaphora enable systems to appear to be intelligent rather than dumb.
    Ex. I think some people would think my approach is nuts.
    Ex. She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex. That was a big boneheaded error.
    Ex. Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.
    Ex. Now I know this country of ours is totally dolally tap!.
    Ex. The server has gone dolally by the looks of it.
    Ex. The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.
    Ex. It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.
    Ex. Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.
    Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.
    Ex. Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.
    Ex. By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex. And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.
    Ex. Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.
    Ex. Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex. The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    Ex. An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Ex. This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex. The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex. If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex. But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex. Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex. Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex. This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.
    Ex. States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex. Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex. She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex. I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex. Every firearm hast its pros and cons and anyone who tells you otherwise is off their knocker.
    Ex. I find it fascinating how Bradley can be perfectly reasonable one moment, and off his rocker the next.
    Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex. ' Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family.
    Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    ----
    * algo estúpido = no-brainer.
    * como un estúpido = stupidly.
    * hacerse el estúpido = dumb down, act + dumb.
    * lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to.
    * rubia estúpida = dumb blonde.
    * ser estúpido = be off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.
    * volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <persona/argumento> stupid, silly

    ay, qué estúpida soy! — oh, how stupid of me!

    II
    - da masculino, femenino idiot, fool
    * * *
    = crazy [crazier -comp., craziest -sup.], dummy, foolish, silly, mindless, moron, stupid, daft [dafter -comp., daftest -sup.], mad, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.], nuts, witless, bonehead, boneheaded, twit, dolally tap, dolally [do-lally], imbecile, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], brainless, dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], twat, nonsensical, mug, berk, prick, cretin, dumbbell, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.], dits, ditz, ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.], airhead, airheaded, duffer, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, off + Posesivo + knocker, off + Posesivo + rocker, dork, moonstruck, plonker.

    Ex: Lest it appear that Ms Marshall's committee and a few others of us, notoriously associated with that kind of work, are little more than crazy, fire-breathing radicals, let me add this gloss immediately.

    Ex: We are too prone to be dummy people by day, and thinking, articulate individuals only in the safety of home and leisure.
    Ex: It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.
    Ex: In conclusion, I am sure you all believe me to be either idealistic, unrealistic, radical, or just plain silly.
    Ex: By this later period pressmen in England were despised as mere 'horses', the 'great guzzlers of beer' who were rebuked by the young Benjamin Franklin for their mindless intemperance.
    Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex: When any librarian is trying to find material on behalf of a user from a poor citation it leads to that librarian appearing slow and stupid to the user.
    Ex: Ranking among the dafter exercises sometimes imposed on children is the one that requires them to describe a screwdriver or a vase or the desks they sit at, or any familiar object.
    Ex: When J D Brown allowed the public of Islington to have open access to the books in the 1890s he was regarded by many of his colleagues as mad!.
    Ex: Techniques such as the automatic detection of anaphora enable systems to appear to be intelligent rather than dumb.
    Ex: I think some people would think my approach is nuts.
    Ex: She refutes the idea of the women's magazine as a 'mouthpiece of masculine interest, of patriarchy and commercialism' that preyed on 'passive, dependent, and witless' women readers.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex: That was a big boneheaded error.
    Ex: Democracy's a nice idea in theory, if it wasn't for all the twits.
    Ex: Now I know this country of ours is totally dolally tap!.
    Ex: The server has gone dolally by the looks of it.
    Ex: The same evil is done in slaving, tormenting and killing, say, chimpanzees as is done in so injuring human imbeciles.
    Ex: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.
    Ex: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.
    Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.
    Ex: Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.
    Ex: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex: And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.
    Ex: Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.
    Ex: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    Ex: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Ex: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex: If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
    Ex: But then again, there are thousands of such ditses out there that need mental help.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
    Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.
    Ex: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex: Every firearm hast its pros and cons and anyone who tells you otherwise is off their knocker.
    Ex: I find it fascinating how Bradley can be perfectly reasonable one moment, and off his rocker the next.
    Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex: ' Moonstruck' has all the fun of movies about weddings: a reluctant groom, an overeager bride, and an emotionally distraught family.
    Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    * algo estúpido = no-brainer.
    * como un estúpido = stupidly.
    * hacerse el estúpido = dumb down, act + dumb.
    * lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to.
    * rubia estúpida = dumb blonde.
    * ser estúpido = be off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * típica rubia estúpida = bimbo.
    * volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.

    * * *
    estúpido1 -da
    ‹persona› stupid; ‹argumento› stupid, silly
    ay, qué estúpida, me equivoqué oh, how stupid of me, I've done it wrong
    un gasto estúpido a stupid waste of money
    es estúpido que vayamos las dos it's silly o stupid for us both to go
    estúpido2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    idiot, fool
    el estúpido de mi hermano my stupid brother
    * * *

     

    estúpido
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ persona› stupid;


    ‹ argumento› stupid, silly;
    ◊ ¡ay, qué estúpida soy! oh, how stupid of me!

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    idiot, fool
    estúpido,-a
    I adjetivo stupid
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino idiot

    ' estúpido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    burra
    - burro
    - estúpida
    - animal
    - apendejarse
    - baboso
    - caballo
    - el
    - embromar
    - gafo
    - huevón
    - pendejo
    English:
    also
    - believe
    - bit
    - bonehead
    - bozo
    - damn
    - dopey
    - equally
    - foolish
    - goof
    - idiotic
    - mindless
    - obtuse
    - pretty
    - shame
    - soft
    - stupid
    - that
    - wonder
    - inane
    - jerk
    * * *
    estúpido, -a
    ♦ adj
    stupid;
    ¡qué estúpido soy! me he vuelto a olvidar what an idiot I am! I've gone and forgotten again;
    sería estúpido no reconocerlo it would be foolish not to admit it
    ♦ nm,f
    idiot;
    el estúpido de mi vecino my idiot of a neighbour
    * * *
    I adj stupid
    II m, estúpida f idiot
    * * *
    estúpido, -da adj
    : stupid
    estúpido, -da n
    idiota: idiot, fool
    * * *
    estúpido1 adj stupid [comp. stupider; superl. stupidest]
    estúpido2 n stupid person / idiot

    Spanish-English dictionary > estúpido

  • 25 idiota

    adj.
    1 stupid (tonto).
    2 mentally deficient (enfermo).
    3 idiot, foolish, dumb, silly.
    4 ament.
    f. & m.
    idiot.
    * * *
    1 MEDICINA idiotic
    2 familiar (tonto) stupid
    1 idiot
    \
    hacer el idiota (hacer payasadas) to be silly, fool about 2 (perder una oportunidad) to be stupid
    * * *
    1. noun mf. 2. adj.
    stupid, idiotic
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ idiotic, stupid
    2.
    SMF idiot

    ¡idiota! — you idiot!

    * * *
    I
    a) (fam) ( tonto) stupid, idiotic
    b) (Med) idiotic
    II
    masculino y femenino ( tonto) (fam) idiot, stupid fool (colloq); (Med) idiot
    * * *
    = idiot, fool, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, arse, mug, berk, prick, moron, cretin, dumbbell, asinine, lemon, airhead, airheaded, bonehead, duffer, drongo, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, dork, plonker.
    Ex. Dykstra, M., 'PRECIS: a primer', published in 1985, offers the long-awaited ' idiot's guide' to PRECIS indexing.
    Ex. A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.
    Ex. It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.
    Ex. Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    Ex. The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.
    Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex. From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex. I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.
    Ex. In fact, there was little doubt in his mind that Nigel was an arse of the highest order.
    Ex. By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex. And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.
    Ex. Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.
    Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex. Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex. The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    Ex. This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex. The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex. Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex. Now I know to you inteligent types this sounds a simple problem but to a drongo like me it is like quantum physics!!!.
    Ex. Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex. This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex. Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.
    Ex. States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex. Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex. She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex. I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    ----
    * como un idiota = stupidly.
    * idiota genio = idiot savant.
    * * *
    I
    a) (fam) ( tonto) stupid, idiotic
    b) (Med) idiotic
    II
    masculino y femenino ( tonto) (fam) idiot, stupid fool (colloq); (Med) idiot
    * * *
    = idiot, fool, cretinous, arsehole [asshole, -USA], dimwit, dim-witted [dimwitted], brainless, twat, arse, mug, berk, prick, moron, cretin, dumbbell, asinine, lemon, airhead, airheaded, bonehead, duffer, drongo, schmuck, schmo, nonce, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, dork, plonker.

    Ex: Dykstra, M., 'PRECIS: a primer', published in 1985, offers the long-awaited ' idiot's guide' to PRECIS indexing.

    Ex: A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.
    Ex: It is already evident that he is a cretinous buffoon.
    Ex: Modern preppies try to be assholes, probably because they think it's cool, and never quite make it.
    Ex: The diplomats have been calling him a lucky dimwit ever since.
    Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex: From that point on, the film is not only stupid, it's dim-witted, brainless and obtuse to the point of being insulting to the audience.
    Ex: I don't really care if he does like real ale, even if his arse was hung with diamonds he would still be a twat.
    Ex: In fact, there was little doubt in his mind that Nigel was an arse of the highest order.
    Ex: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex: And before some berk starts whittling on about anti-car lobbies, we should all be lobbying for less car use if we've got any interest whatsoever in the future.
    Ex: Steve knows that he is a 'showboat, a little bit of a prick,' but he also knows that it's too late for a man in his fifties to change.
    Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    Ex: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex: Now I know to you inteligent types this sounds a simple problem but to a drongo like me it is like quantum physics!!!.
    Ex: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex: Justin, whilst clearly a nonce, is to be commended on instigating a high-profile campaign to free the hostages.
    Ex: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    * como un idiota = stupidly.
    * idiota genio = idiot savant.

    * * *
    1 ( fam) (tonto) stupid, idiotic
    me caí de la manera más idiota I had the most idiotic o stupid fall ( colloq)
    ¡no seas idiota! don't be so stupid!, don't be such an idiot!
    2 ( Med) idiotic
    1 ( fam) (tonto) idiot, stupid fool ( colloq)
    2 ( Med) idiot
    Compuesto:
    idealistic puppet o stooge
    * * *

    idiota adjetivo (fam) ( tonto) stupid, idiotic;
    ◊ ¡no seas idiota! don't be such an idiot!

    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino ( tonto) (fam) idiot, stupid fool (colloq)
    idiota
    I adjetivo idiotic, stupid
    II mf idiot, fool

    ' idiota' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    tomar
    - trompo
    - verdadera
    - verdadero
    - pedazo
    - perdido
    English:
    bozo
    - fool
    - idiot
    - idiotic
    - knob
    - make out
    - meathead
    - moron
    - nerd
    - plonker
    - right
    - some
    - inane
    - mug
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [tonto] stupid
    2. [enfermo] mentally deficient
    ♦ nmf
    1. [tonto] idiot
    2. [enfermo] idiot
    * * *
    I adj idiotic
    II m/f idiot
    * * *
    idiota adj
    : idiotic, stupid, foolish
    idiota nmf
    : idiot, foolish person
    * * *
    idiota1 adj stupid [comp. stupider; superl. stupidest]
    idiota2 n idiot

    Spanish-English dictionary > idiota

  • 26 imbecilidad

    f.
    1 stupidity.
    decir/hacer una imbecilidad to say/do something stupid
    2 imbecility, foolishness, feeblemindedness, stupidity.
    3 stupid thing to do, stupid act, stupid action, stupidity.
    4 stupid thing to say, stupid remark.
    * * *
    1 MEDICINA imbecility
    2 familiar stupid thing to do
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=idiotez) stupidity, idiocy
    2) (Med) imbecility
    * * *
    a) (fam) ( cosa estúpida)

    decir/hacer imbecilidades — to say/do stupid things

    b) (Med) imbecility
    * * *
    = imbecility, idiocy.
    Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, imbecility, and Morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex. The article 'The circulation idiom and the idiocy of fashion' argues that the belief that high circulation figures are the preeminent measure of the quality of a library's service is dangerous = El artículo "El modismo de la circulación y la idotez de la moda" postula que es peligroso creer que la medida prevalente de la calidad del servicio de una biblioteca es un número elevado de préstamos.
    * * *
    a) (fam) ( cosa estúpida)

    decir/hacer imbecilidades — to say/do stupid things

    b) (Med) imbecility
    * * *
    = imbecility, idiocy.

    Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, imbecility, and Morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.

    Ex: The article 'The circulation idiom and the idiocy of fashion' argues that the belief that high circulation figures are the preeminent measure of the quality of a library's service is dangerous = El artículo "El modismo de la circulación y la idotez de la moda" postula que es peligroso creer que la medida prevalente de la calidad del servicio de una biblioteca es un número elevado de préstamos.

    * * *
    1 ( fam)
    (cosa estúpida): no para de decir/hacer imbecilidades she's always saying/doing stupid things
    2 ( Med) imbecility
    * * *

    imbecilidad sustantivo femenino stupidity, imbecility
    ' imbecilidad' also found in these entries:
    English:
    idiocy
    * * *
    [acto, dicho] stupid thing;
    decir/hacer una imbecilidad to say/do something stupid;
    no dice más que imbecilidades he talks nothing but nonsense;
    ¿y por eso se enfada? ¡vaya (una) imbecilidad! and she got angry about that? how stupid!
    * * *
    f
    1 stupidity;
    ¡qué imbecilidad decir eso! what a stupid thing to say!
    2 MED imbecility

    Spanish-English dictionary > imbecilidad

  • 27 manido

    adj.
    1 trite, hackneyed, cliché.
    2 shop-worn, worn.
    3 gamey, gamy.
    4 full, swarming.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: manir.
    * * *
    1 (frase) hackneyed; (tema) stale
    2 (objeto) well-worn
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=trillado) [tema] trite, stale; [frase] hackneyed
    2) (=pasado) [carne] high, gamy; [frutos secos] stale
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < frase> hackneyed; < tema> stale
    * * *
    = rank, hackneyed, worn, well-worn, jaded, overused [over-used], overworked, stale, timeworn.
    Ex. And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.
    Ex. It is the order of words that helps us to distinguish between 'office post' and 'post office' or, to quote the hackneyed example, 'blind Venetian' and 'Venetian blind'.
    Ex. Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex. To use a well-worn example, the string (2) physiotherapy (6) nurses $h for (6) bibliographies obviously represents a different sense from the similar string (2) physiotherapy (6) bibliographies (6) nurses $h for.
    Ex. He is notorious for poking fun at those who advance jaded, esoteric ideas about the importance of studying classical languages.
    Ex. Sustainable agriculture has become a very over-used concept.
    Ex. User-friendliness is a much overworked phrase which has been interpreted in different ways by software houses.
    Ex. We librarians are already infiltrators into the stale round of our readers' domestic daily life.
    Ex. This is in stark contrast to the warped logic and timeworn language to which Lebanon's rulers resorted in the wake of the tragedy.
    ----
    * composición musical manida = war horse.
    * manido, lo = worn, the.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < frase> hackneyed; < tema> stale
    * * *
    = rank, hackneyed, worn, well-worn, jaded, overused [over-used], overworked, stale, timeworn.

    Ex: And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.

    Ex: It is the order of words that helps us to distinguish between 'office post' and 'post office' or, to quote the hackneyed example, 'blind Venetian' and 'Venetian blind'.
    Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex: To use a well-worn example, the string (2) physiotherapy (6) nurses $h for (6) bibliographies obviously represents a different sense from the similar string (2) physiotherapy (6) bibliographies (6) nurses $h for.
    Ex: He is notorious for poking fun at those who advance jaded, esoteric ideas about the importance of studying classical languages.
    Ex: Sustainable agriculture has become a very over-used concept.
    Ex: User-friendliness is a much overworked phrase which has been interpreted in different ways by software houses.
    Ex: We librarians are already infiltrators into the stale round of our readers' domestic daily life.
    Ex: This is in stark contrast to the warped logic and timeworn language to which Lebanon's rulers resorted in the wake of the tragedy.
    * composición musical manida = war horse.
    * manido, lo = worn, the.

    * * *
    manido -da
    ‹frase› hackneyed; ‹tema› stale
    * * *

    manido
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ frase› hackneyed;


    ‹ tema› stale
    manido,-a adjetivo well-worn
    ' manido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    gastada
    - gastado
    - manida
    English:
    derivative
    - hackneyed
    * * *
    manido, -a adj
    un tema muy manido a well-worn o much-discussed topic
    * * *
    adj fig
    clichéd, done to death fam
    * * *
    manido, -da adj
    : hackneyed, stale, trite

    Spanish-English dictionary > manido

  • 28 mudo

    adj.
    1 dumb, muted, tongue-tied, speechless.
    2 mute, silent, mum.
    3 dumb, unable to speak.
    4 mute, voiceless, surd, silent.
    5 soundless, songless.
    f. & m.
    mute, dumb person, person incapable of speech, person who cannot speak.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: mudar.
    * * *
    1 (por defecto) dumb; (por voluntad) silent, quiet
    3 (vocal, consonante) mute
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 dumb person
    \
    estar mudo,-a to be dumb
    mudo,-a de asombro dumbfounded
    quedarse mudo,-a to be left speechless
    * * *
    (f. - muda)
    adj.
    1) dumb
    2) mute
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (Med) dumb, mute frm
    2) (=callado) silent, mute

    quedarse mudo de asombro — to be left speechless, be dumbfounded

    quedarse mudo de envidia — Esp to be green with envy

    3) (Ling) [letra] mute, silent; [consonante] voiceless
    4) [película] silent
    5)

    papel mudo — (Teat) walk-on part

    6) And, CAm (=tonto) foolish, silly
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) (Med) dumb, mute
    b) < letra> silent, mute
    II
    - da masculino, femenino mute
    * * *
    = mute, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.].
    Ex. The young librarian was not accustomed to seeing the head of reference red-faced with mute anger or the head of technical services mumbling uncontrollably to himself.
    Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and Morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    ----
    * quedarse mudo = be speechless, be gobsmacked.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo
    a) (Med) dumb, mute
    b) < letra> silent, mute
    II
    - da masculino, femenino mute
    * * *
    = mute, dumb [dumber -comp., dumbest -sup.].

    Ex: The young librarian was not accustomed to seeing the head of reference red-faced with mute anger or the head of technical services mumbling uncontrollably to himself.

    Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and Morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    * quedarse mudo = be speechless, be gobsmacked.

    * * *
    mudo1 -da
    1 ( Med) dumb, mute
    es mudo de nacimiento he was born mute, he's been dumb o mute from birth
    se quedó mudo de asombro he was dumbfounded
    se quedó mudo de emoción he was speechless with emotion
    2 ‹letra› silent, mute
    mudo2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    mute, dumb person
    * * *

     

    Del verbo mudar: ( conjugate mudar)

    mudo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    mudó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    mudar    
    mudo
    mudar ( conjugate mudar) verbo intransitivo
    1 ( cambiar):
    ◊ las serpientes mudan de piel snakes slough off o shed their skin;

    cuando mudó de voz when his voice broke
    2 (Méx) ( cambiar los dientes) to lose one's milk teeth
    verbo transitivo
    1 ‹bebé/sábanas› to change
    2 (Zool) ‹piel/plumas› to molt, shed
    mudarse verbo pronominal



    mudo
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    a) (Med) dumb, mute;


    se quedó mudo de asombro he was dumbfounded
    b) ‹ letra› silent, mute

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    mute
    mudar verbo transitivo
    1 (ropa, pañales) to change
    2 Zool to shed
    mudo,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (que no habla) dumb
    2 fig (sin palabras) speechless, dumbstruck: estaba mudo de asombro, he was speechless with amazement
    3 (letra, cine) mute, silent
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino mute
    ' mudo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cine
    - muda
    - nacimiento
    - mudar
    English:
    dumb
    - dumbfounded
    - dumbstruck
    - move out
    - mute
    - silent
    - speechless
    - strike
    * * *
    mudo, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [sin habla] mute, dumb;
    es mudo de nacimiento he was born mute
    2. [callado] silent, mute;
    fue mudo testigo del asesinato she was a silent witness to the murder;
    se quedó mudo he was left speechless;
    me quedé mudo de terror I was speechless o I was struck dumb with fright
    3. [sin sonido] silent;
    cine mudo silent films
    4. [letra] silent
    ♦ nm,f
    dumb person, mute
    * * *
    adj
    1 persona mute
    2 letra silent
    * * *
    mudo, -da adj
    1) silencioso: silent
    el cine mudo: silent films
    2) : mute, dumb
    mudo, -da n
    : mute
    * * *
    mudo1 adj
    1. (persona) dumb
    2. (cine, letra) silent
    mudo2 n dumb person

    Spanish-English dictionary > mudo

  • 29 necio

    adj.
    silly, ignorant, stupid, foolish.
    * * *
    1 stupid
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 imbecile, idiot
    * * *
    necio, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (=tonto) foolish, stupid
    2) Méx (=terco) stubborn, pig-headed
    3) And (=displicente) peevish
    4) And, Caribe, Cono Sur (=quisquilloso) touchy, hypersensitive
    5) CAm [enfermedad] hard to shake off
    2.
    SM / F fool
    * * *
    - cia adjetivo
    1) ( tonto) stupid
    2) (AmC, Col, Ven fam) ( travieso) naughty
    * * *
    = moron, cretin, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, airhead, airheaded, bonehead, duffer, schmuck, schmo, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, dork, plonker.
    Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex. Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex. An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Ex. This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex. The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex. Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex. She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex. Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex. Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex. This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex. States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex. He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex. For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex. Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex. She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex. I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex. And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex. If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    ----
    * como un necio = stupidly.
    * * *
    - cia adjetivo
    1) ( tonto) stupid
    2) (AmC, Col, Ven fam) ( travieso) naughty
    * * *
    = moron, cretin, dull-witted, asinine, lemon, airhead, airheaded, bonehead, duffer, schmuck, schmo, moke, twerp, dweeb, chump, birdbrained, birdbrain, dork, plonker.

    Ex: This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.

    Ex: Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.
    Ex: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Ex: This chapter is dedicated to the truly asinine rules -- ones which either defeat their own purpose altogether or are completely devoid of common sense.
    Ex: The court also heard the victim's brother accuse the defendant of physical abuse and of calling him a ' lemon and a retard'.
    Ex: Some people like airheads with fake boobs.
    Ex: She's just an airheaded bimbo, with an endless capacity to push aside unpleasant realities in favor of her more satisfying interests: young men and jewels.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Field Research for Boneheads: From Naivete to Insight on the Green Tortoise'.
    Ex: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.
    Ex: Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult.
    Ex: This team of schmoes is capable of anything.
    Ex: States know better what their own citizens needs are than do the mokes in Washington.
    Ex: He started life as a twerp, then fairly quickly became a jerk and ended up an old sourpuss.
    Ex: For this reason, I will probably not vote in the London mayoral election at all and this doesn't make me a whinging negativist dweeb.
    Ex: Americans are such chumps, because we refuse to see what is going on right in front of our eyes.
    Ex: She has her own birdbrained way of thinking about things, but most of what she says is vaguely prophetic.
    Ex: I am thinking humans can be such birdbrains when it comes to communication.
    Ex: And then we get nongs like Joe here who just cant help himself from being a dork.
    Ex: If she'd been my daughter in fact I'd never have let her go out with an obvious plonker like myself.
    * como un necio = stupidly.

    * * *
    A (tonto) stupid, brainless ( colloq)
    B ( RPl) (susceptible) touchy
    C (AmC, Col, Ven fam) (travieso) naughty
    masculine, feminine
    el necio es atrevido y el sabio comedido fools rush in where angels fear to tread
    B ( RPl) (persona susceptible) touchy person
    C (AmC, Col, Ven fam) (travieso) naughty boy ( o child etc)
    * * *

    necio
    ◊ - cia adjetivo


    b) (AmC, Col, Ven fam) ( travieso) naughty

    necio,-a
    I adjetivo stupid, fatuous
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino stupid fool: su hermano es un necio, his brother's an idiot
    ♦ Locuciones: a palabras necias, oídos sordos, turn a deaf ear to foolish comments
    ' necio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    animal
    - burra
    - burro
    - necia
    - subnormal
    * * *
    necio, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [tonto] stupid, foolish
    2. Am [terco] stubborn, pigheaded
    3. Méx [susceptible] touchy
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [tonto] idiot, fool
    2. Am [terco] stubborn o pigheaded person;
    es un necio he's really stubborn o pigheaded
    3. Méx [susceptible] touchy person;
    es un necio he's really touchy
    * * *
    I adj brainless
    II m, necia f fool, idiot
    * * *
    necio, - cia adj
    1) : foolish, silly, dumb
    2) fam : naughty
    necio, - cia n
    estúpido: fool, idiot

    Spanish-English dictionary > necio

  • 30 peligroso

    adj.
    1 dangerous, adventurous, unsafe, risky.
    2 unsafe, perilous, dangerous, fraught with danger.
    3 dangerous, violent, likely to do harm.
    4 feral.
    * * *
    1 dangerous
    * * *
    (f. - peligrosa)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ [gen] dangerous; (=arriesgado) risky; [herida] ugly, nasty
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo dangerous
    * * *
    = dangerous, risky [riskier -comp., riskiest -sup.], hazardous, treacherous, perilous, unsafe.
    Ex. The main rule, however, is do not have loose cables hanging all over the place -- not only is it unsightly but also extremely dangerous.
    Ex. Then the conscientious manager can help solve his problems without engaging in original laborious research or the risky practice of trial and error.
    Ex. This may seem a hazardous assumption, but the results are worth considering.
    Ex. Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex. The financial situation of cultural institutions is becoming increasingly perilous = La situación económica de las instituciones culturales se hace cada vez más peligrosa.
    Ex. However, the Internet is perceived as an unsafe medium for the valuable and sensitive information in business transactions.
    ----
    * andar por terreno peligroso = skate + on thin ice, tread on + dangerous ground.
    * atracción peligrosa = siren song.
    * en situaciones peligrosas = in harm's way.
    * en terreno peligroso = on shaky grounds.
    * perro peligroso = vicious dog.
    * resultar peligroso = pose + danger.
    * situación peligrosa = dangerous situation.
    * terreno peligroso = on thin ice, slippery ground, on dangerous ground.
    * zona peligrosa = no-go area.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo dangerous
    * * *
    = dangerous, risky [riskier -comp., riskiest -sup.], hazardous, treacherous, perilous, unsafe.

    Ex: The main rule, however, is do not have loose cables hanging all over the place -- not only is it unsightly but also extremely dangerous.

    Ex: Then the conscientious manager can help solve his problems without engaging in original laborious research or the risky practice of trial and error.
    Ex: This may seem a hazardous assumption, but the results are worth considering.
    Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex: The financial situation of cultural institutions is becoming increasingly perilous = La situación económica de las instituciones culturales se hace cada vez más peligrosa.
    Ex: However, the Internet is perceived as an unsafe medium for the valuable and sensitive information in business transactions.
    * andar por terreno peligroso = skate + on thin ice, tread on + dangerous ground.
    * atracción peligrosa = siren song.
    * en situaciones peligrosas = in harm's way.
    * en terreno peligroso = on shaky grounds.
    * perro peligroso = vicious dog.
    * resultar peligroso = pose + danger.
    * situación peligrosa = dangerous situation.
    * terreno peligroso = on thin ice, slippery ground, on dangerous ground.
    * zona peligrosa = no-go area.

    * * *
    ‹carretera/trabajo/empresa› dangerous, hazardous; ‹deporte› dangerous; ‹delincuente› dangerous
    no te fíes de él, es una persona peligrosa don't trust him, he's dangerous
    * * *

     

    peligroso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    dangerous
    peligroso,-a adjetivo dangerous, risky

    ' peligroso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    apurada
    - apurado
    - comecocos
    - grave
    - insegura
    - inseguro
    - peligrosa
    - cruce
    - endiablado
    - polvorín
    English:
    also
    - carry off
    - dangerous
    - death trap
    - hazardous
    - hitch-hike
    - hot
    - lean out
    - mention
    - perilous
    - rough
    - safe
    - shipping
    - treacherous
    - unsafe
    - warn
    * * *
    peligroso, -a adj
    dangerous
    * * *
    adj dangerous
    * * *
    peligroso, -sa adj
    : dangerous, hazardous
    * * *
    peligroso adj dangerous

    Spanish-English dictionary > peligroso

  • 31 poco fiable

    adj.
    unreliable, untrustworthy.
    * * *
    (adj.) = unreliable, undependable, flaky [flakey]
    Ex. Programme titles in this category were discovered to be very unreliable as indicators of likely programme content.
    Ex. Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex. Wireless networks are going to be flaky; that's just inevitable.
    * * *
    (adj.) = unreliable, undependable, flaky [flakey]

    Ex: Programme titles in this category were discovered to be very unreliable as indicators of likely programme content.

    Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex: Wireless networks are going to be flaky; that's just inevitable.

    Spanish-English dictionary > poco fiable

  • 32 raído

    adj.
    frayed, torn, shabby, worn.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: raer.
    * * *
    1→ link=raer raer
    1 (deteriorado) threadbare, worn
    2 figurado (descarado) shameless, cheeky
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [paño] frayed, threadbare; [ropa, persona] shabby
    2) (=desvergonzado) shameless
    * * *
    - da adjetivo worn-out, threadbare
    * * *
    = frayed, worn, well-worn, moth-eaten, mothy [mothier -comp., mothiest -sup.], timeworn.
    Ex. It has a time-worn and frayed look.
    Ex. Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex. He was described as 'a self-important, self-righteous blowhard, puffing his filthy pipe, patches on the elbows of his well-worn tweed jacket, decked out in the cliche costume of the shabby liberal icon'.
    Ex. He said: 'The outer shell of democracy is, no doubt, intact but it appears to be moth-eaten from inside'.
    Ex. So, he cleaned the bird cage from top to bottom and threw out all the mothy bird seed.
    Ex. In the crest of the timeworn Black Mountains lies the summit of Mount Mitchell, the highest point east of the Mississippi.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo worn-out, threadbare
    * * *
    = frayed, worn, well-worn, moth-eaten, mothy [mothier -comp., mothiest -sup.], timeworn.

    Ex: It has a time-worn and frayed look.

    Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex: He was described as 'a self-important, self-righteous blowhard, puffing his filthy pipe, patches on the elbows of his well-worn tweed jacket, decked out in the cliche costume of the shabby liberal icon'.
    Ex: He said: 'The outer shell of democracy is, no doubt, intact but it appears to be moth-eaten from inside'.
    Ex: So, he cleaned the bird cage from top to bottom and threw out all the mothy bird seed.
    Ex: In the crest of the timeworn Black Mountains lies the summit of Mount Mitchell, the highest point east of the Mississippi.

    * * *
    raído -da
    worn-out, threadbare
    * * *

    Del verbo raer: ( conjugate raer)

    raído es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    raer    
    raído
    raer ( conjugate raer) verbo transitivo ‹ superficie› to scrape;
    ‹barniz/pintura› to scrape off
    raído
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    worn-out, threadbare
    raído,-a adjetivo worn (out)

    ' raído' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    raída
    English:
    mangy
    - shabby
    - threadbare
    - thread
    - worn
    * * *
    raído, -a adj
    [desgastado] threadbare; [por los bordes] frayed
    * * *
    adj threadbare
    * * *
    raído, -da adj
    : worn, shabby
    * * *
    raído adj shabby [comp. shabbier; superl. shabbiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > raído

  • 33 recuerdo

    m.
    1 memory.
    quedar en el recuerdo (de) to be remembered (by)
    traer recuerdos a alguien de algo to bring back memories of something to somebody
    tengo muy buen/mal recuerdo de ese viaje I have very fond/bad memories of that trip
    3 reminder.
    4 booster.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: recordar.
    * * *
    1 (imagen) memory, recollection
    2 (regalo) souvenir, keepsake
    1 (saludos) regards, greetings; (en carta) best wishes
    ■ ¡recuerdos a tu hermana! say hello to your sister for me!
    \
    en recuerdo de in memory of
    tener un buen recuerdo de algo to have happy memories of something
    * * *
    noun m.
    •
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ And * awake
    2. SM
    1) (=memoria) memory

    "Recuerdos de la vida de hace 80 años" — "Reminiscences of life 80 years ago"

    entrar en el recuerdo, pasar al recuerdo — euf to pass away

    2) (=regalo) souvenir, memento

    "recuerdo de Mallorca" — "present from Majorca"

    3) pl recuerdos (=saludos) regards

    ¡recuerdos a tu madre! — give my regards to your mother!

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( reminiscencia) memory
    b) ( souvenir) souvenir; ( regalo) memento, keepsake
    2) recuerdos masculino plural regards (pl), best wishes (pl)
    * * *
    = memorial, reminiscence, recollection, keepsake, remembrance, souvenir, memento [mementos/mementoes, -pl.], reminisce, reminder, memory.
    Ex. The solitary volume published remains to date a memorial of that epochal event.
    Ex. In addition to providing books the staff have introduced topic packs which are used for group discussion, and take to the elderly persons' homes old but familiar household objects which can stimulate reminiscences.
    Ex. Mearns warns us, ' Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex. The collection contains objects such as keepsake dishes, playing cards, scarves, postcards, advertising flyers and brochures = La colección contiene objetos como, por ejemplo, platos de recuerdo, cartas de barajas, bufandas, postales, hojas publicitarias y guías informativas.
    Ex. The article ' Remembrance of book past' describes the development of bookbinding techniques, with clear illustrations of the various processes.
    Ex. A personal accumulation of souvenirs becomes a collection as soon as it becomes of interest to someone else.
    Ex. The mementoes from far off lands in drawing rooms and museums constitute another imaginary land in which the idea of foreign cultures is shaped.
    Ex. The article presents the reminisces of a professor of librarianship who had been a student at City University of New York in the late 40s.
    Ex. A constant reminder that, these days, retrospective bibliography and technology are hand in hand is the realization that all of the items listed in both Pollard and Redgrave and Wing are available to purchase in microform editions.
    Ex. Artists or their families have often wished to erase the memory of convict or immigrant origins, youthful indiscretions, or previous marriages.
    ----
    * borrar un recuerdo = expunge + memory.
    * denominar en recuerdo de = name after.
    * en recuerdo de = in memoriam, in memory of, in loving memory of.
    * libro de recuerdo = keepsake.
    * recuerdo del pasado = flashback [flash back].
    * recuerdo imborrable = lasting impression, indelible impression, indelible memory, lasting memory, long-lasting memory.
    * recuerdos = memories [memory, -sing.], memorabilia.
    * tienda de recuerdos = souvenir shop.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( reminiscencia) memory
    b) ( souvenir) souvenir; ( regalo) memento, keepsake
    2) recuerdos masculino plural regards (pl), best wishes (pl)
    * * *
    = memorial, reminiscence, recollection, keepsake, remembrance, souvenir, memento [mementos/mementoes, -pl.], reminisce, reminder, memory.

    Ex: The solitary volume published remains to date a memorial of that epochal event.

    Ex: In addition to providing books the staff have introduced topic packs which are used for group discussion, and take to the elderly persons' homes old but familiar household objects which can stimulate reminiscences.
    Ex: Mearns warns us, ' Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex: The collection contains objects such as keepsake dishes, playing cards, scarves, postcards, advertising flyers and brochures = La colección contiene objetos como, por ejemplo, platos de recuerdo, cartas de barajas, bufandas, postales, hojas publicitarias y guías informativas.
    Ex: The article ' Remembrance of book past' describes the development of bookbinding techniques, with clear illustrations of the various processes.
    Ex: A personal accumulation of souvenirs becomes a collection as soon as it becomes of interest to someone else.
    Ex: The mementoes from far off lands in drawing rooms and museums constitute another imaginary land in which the idea of foreign cultures is shaped.
    Ex: The article presents the reminisces of a professor of librarianship who had been a student at City University of New York in the late 40s.
    Ex: A constant reminder that, these days, retrospective bibliography and technology are hand in hand is the realization that all of the items listed in both Pollard and Redgrave and Wing are available to purchase in microform editions.
    Ex: Artists or their families have often wished to erase the memory of convict or immigrant origins, youthful indiscretions, or previous marriages.
    * borrar un recuerdo = expunge + memory.
    * denominar en recuerdo de = name after.
    * en recuerdo de = in memoriam, in memory of, in loving memory of.
    * libro de recuerdo = keepsake.
    * recuerdo del pasado = flashback [flash back].
    * recuerdo imborrable = lasting impression, indelible impression, indelible memory, lasting memory, long-lasting memory.
    * recuerdos = memories [memory, -sing.], memorabilia.
    * tienda de recuerdos = souvenir shop.

    * * *
    A
    conservo or guardo un grato recuerdo de aquellos años I have fond memories of those years
    me trae recuerdos de la infancia it brings back childhood memories
    2 (souvenir) souvenir
    me lo llevo de recuerdo I'll keep it as a souvenir o memento
    [ S ] recuerdo de Granada souvenir of Granada
    le dio una cajita de recuerdo she gave him a little box as a memento o keepsake
    es un recuerdo de familia it's a family heirloom
    B recuerdos mpl regards (pl), best wishes (pl)
    dale recuerdos de mi parte give him my regards
    * * *

     

    Del verbo recordar: ( conjugate recordar)

    recuerdo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    recordar    
    recuerdo
    recordar ( conjugate recordar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹nombre/fecha› to remember, recall;

    ◊ recuerdo que lo puse ahí I remember o recall putting it there

    b) ( rememorar) ‹niñez/pasado› to remember

    2
    a) ( traer a la memoria) recuerdole A algnalgo/ que haga algo to remind sb about sth/to do sth;

    ◊ les recuerdo que … I would like to remind you that …

    b) (por asociación, parecido) to remind;


    verbo intransitivo ( acordarse) to remember;

    recuerdo sustantivo masculino
    1


    ( regalo) memento, keepsake;

    2
    ◊ recuerdos sustantivo masculino plural

    regards (pl), best wishes (pl);
    dale recuerdos give him my regards
    recordar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (acordarse) to remember, recall: no recuerdo su nombre, I can't remember his name
    2 (hacer recordar) to remind: recuérdame que compre el pan, remind me to buy some bread
    me recuerda a su madre, she reminds me of her mother
    II verbo intransitivo to remember: si mal no recuerdo, if I remember rightly ➣ Ver nota en remember y remind
    To remember     significa recordar algo ocurrido en el pasado: Recuerdo mi último cumpleaños. I remember my last birthday. To remind significa recordar a alguien que tiene que hacer algo: Recuérdame que mañana tengo que ir al banco. Remind me to go to the bank tomorrow.
    recuerdo sustantivo masculino
    1 (en la mente) memory: tiene malos recuerdos de su infancia, he's got some unhappy memories from his childhood
    2 (objeto) (para recordar a alguien) keepsake: me dio una vieja moneda como recuerdo, he gave me an old coin as a keepsake
    (para recordar un lugar) souvenir: no trajeron ningún recuerdo de Viena, they didn't bring any souvenirs back from Vienna
    3 recuerdos, (saludo) regards
    ' recuerdo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    borrosa
    - borroso
    - cicatrizar
    - desenterrar
    - despertar
    - desvanecerse
    - evanescente
    - guardar
    - imborrable
    - les
    - mantener
    - memoria
    - nebulosa
    - nebuloso
    - neta
    - neto
    - olvido
    - perdurable
    - recordar
    - temprana
    - temprano
    - vivir
    - amargo
    - caer
    - confuso
    - doloroso
    - duradero
    - entrañable
    - llevar
    - nitidez
    - perdurar
    - vago
    - viveza
    English:
    blank out
    - blot out
    - escape
    - hazy
    - live on
    - make
    - memento
    - memory
    - name
    - obliterate
    - recollect
    - recollection
    - remember
    - remembrance
    - reminder
    - rightly
    - souvenir
    - tender
    - vivid
    - far
    - keepsake
    - last
    - which
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [rememoración] memory;
    quedar en el recuerdo (de) to be remembered (by);
    traer recuerdos a alguien de algo to bring back memories of sth to sb;
    tengo muy buen/mal recuerdo de ese viaje I have very fond/bad memories of that trip
    2. [objeto] [de viaje] souvenir;
    [de persona] keepsake;
    me quedé su agenda como recuerdo I kept her diary as a keepsake
    3.
    recuerdos [saludos] regards;
    dale recuerdos a tu hermana (de mi parte) give my regards to your sister, give your sister my regards;
    Javier te manda recuerdos Javier sends his regards;
    recuerdos de Isabel Isabel says hello
    * * *
    m
    1 memory, recollection;
    en recuerdo de in memory of
    2
    :
    da recuerdos a Luís give Luís my regards;
    mandar recuerdos a alguien send s.o. one’s regards
    * * *
    1) : memory
    2) : souvenir, memento
    3) recuerdos nmpl
    : regards
    * * *
    1. (reminiscencia) memory [pl. memories]
    2. (objeto) souvenir

    Spanish-English dictionary > recuerdo

  • 34 traicionero

    adj.
    1 treacherous, recreant, treasonable, backstabbing.
    2 treacherous, traitorous.
    * * *
    1 treacherous
    * * *
    * * *
    - ra adjetivo
    a) <persona/acción> treacherous
    b) <mar/tiempo> treacherous, dangerous
    * * *
    = treacherous, backstabber.
    Ex. Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex. They won't change, because backstabber behavior has worked for them in the past.
    * * *
    - ra adjetivo
    a) <persona/acción> treacherous
    b) <mar/tiempo> treacherous, dangerous
    * * *
    = treacherous, backstabber.

    Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.

    Ex: They won't change, because backstabber behavior has worked for them in the past.

    * * *
    1 ‹persona/acción› treacherous
    2 ‹mar/carretera/tiempo› treacherous, dangerous
    * * *

    traicionero
    ◊ -ra adjetivo

    a) ‹persona/acción› treacherous

    b) ‹mar/carretera› treacherous, dangerous

    traicionero,-a adjetivo treacherous
    ' traicionero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    traicionera
    - matrero
    English:
    treacherous
    * * *
    traicionero, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [aliado, amigo] treacherous;
    eso fue un golpe traicionero that was a bit below the belt
    2. [tiempo, corriente] treacherous, dangerous;
    las montañas pueden ser muy traicioneras mountains can be very treacherous
    3. [gesto, lágrimas] revealing, telltale
    ♦ nm,f
    traitor
    * * *
    adj treacherous
    * * *

    Spanish-English dictionary > traicionero

  • 35 vago2

    2 = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], fuzzy [fuzzier - comp., fuzziest -sup.], vague [vaguer -comp., vaguest -sup.], feeble, loose [looser -comp., loosest -sup.], wooly [woolier -comp., wooliest -sup.], indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous.
    Ex. The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.
    Ex. This is a rather fuzzy basis for establishing subject headings, but fuzziness is not the guidelines only fault.
    Ex. Some of the terms are vague.
    Ex. Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex. Kast points out that there is a 'rather loose, conglomeration of interests and approaches' in this developing field.
    Ex. On the other side, some aspects of the planning study remains wooly.
    Ex. The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.
    Ex. This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.
    Ex. The concept of such a center remained nebulous at best, and we later learned that communication problems early on had muddied the message about what was really needed.
    ----
    * de manera vaga = hazily.

    Spanish-English dictionary > vago2

  • 36 movido

    adj.
    1 moved, encouraged, motivated.
    2 helter-skelter, hectic.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: mover.
    * * *
    1→ link=mover mover
    1 (día, temporada) busy, hectic
    2 (persona) active
    3 (fiesta, concurso) lively
    4 (foto) blurred
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (Fot) blurred
    2) [persona] (=activo) on the move *, on the go *; (=inquieto) restless
    3) (=agitado)
    a) [mar] rough, choppy; [viaje] [en barco] rough; [en avión] bumpy
    b) [día, semana] hectic, busy; [reunión, sesión] stormy
    4) And, CAm [huevo] soft-shelled
    5) CAm (=débil) weak, feeble; (=lento) slow, sluggish; (=indeciso) irresolute
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) (Fot) blurred
    b) ( agitado) < mar> rough, choppy; <día/año> hectic, busy; < fiesta> lively
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) (Fot) blurred
    b) ( agitado) < mar> rough, choppy; <día/año> hectic, busy; < fiesta> lively
    * * *
    movido -da
    1 ( Fot) blurred
    la foto salió movida the photograph came out blurred
    2 ‹mar› rough, choppy
    3 (agitado) hectic, busy
    este año ha sido movidito this has been a pretty hectic year
    una reunión muy movida a very lively o stormy meeting
    * * *

    Del verbo mover: ( conjugate mover)

    movido es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    mover    
    movido
    mover ( conjugate mover) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) (trasladar, desplazar) to move

    b) (Jueg) ‹ficha/pieza› to move

    c) ( agitar):


    el viento movía los árboles the wind shook the trees;
    movió la cabeza ( asintiendo) he nodded (his head);

    ( negando) she shook her head;


    2 ( inducir):

    verbo intransitivo (Jueg) to move
    moverse verbo pronominal


    la lámpara se movía con el viento the lamp was moving o swaying in the wind

    movido
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    a) (Fot) blurred

    b) ( agitado) ‹ mar› rough, choppy;

    ‹día/año› hectic, busy;
    ‹ fiesta› lively
    mover verbo transitivo
    1 to move: movimos la mesa, we moved the table
    mover la cabeza, (afirmativamente) to nod
    (negativamente) to shake one's head
    2 (empujar, decidir) aquello me movió a viajar, that led me to travel
    le mueve la codicia, she's driven by greed
    no sabemos qué le movió a hacerlo, we don't know what made him do it
    3 (activar) to drive: el aire mueve las aspas, the wind drives the sails
    movido,-a adjetivo
    1 Fot blurred: ha salido movido en la foto, it came out blurred in the photograph
    2 (ajetreado) busy: ¡vaya tarde más movida!, what a busy afternoon!
    ' movido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    movida
    English:
    unsettled
    * * *
    movido, -a adj
    1. [debate, torneo] lively;
    [jornada, viaje] hectic
    2. [mar] rough, choppy
    3. [fotografía] blurred, fuzzy
    4. CAm Fam [enclenque, raquítico] feeble
    5. Chile [huevo] soft-shelled
    * * *
    adj
    1 foto blurred
    2 mar rough

    Spanish-English dictionary > movido

  • 37 vago

    adj.
    1 footloose, errant, roving, shiftless.
    2 nebulous, amorphous, formless, shapeless.
    3 vague, general, unspecific.
    4 rambling, excursive.
    f. & m.
    1 bum, loafer, deadbeat, good-for-nothing.
    2 vagus.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: vagar.
    * * *
    1 (impreciso) vague
    ————————
    1 (vacío) empty; (desocupado) vacant
    2 (holgazán) lazy, idle
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (holgazán) idler, layabout, slacker
    2 DERECHO vagrant
    \
    hacer el vago to laze around
    * * *
    1. (f. - vaga)
    adj.
    1) idle, lazy
    2. (f. - vaga)
    noun
    * * *
    vago, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (gen) vague; (Arte, Fot) blurred, ill-defined; (=indeterminado) indeterminate
    2) [persona] (=perezoso) lazy, slack; (=poco fiable) unreliable; (=ocioso) idle, unemployed
    3) [ojo] lazy; [objeto] idle, unused; [espacio] empty
    4) (=errante) roving, wandering
    5) †

    en vago — [mantenerse] unsteadily; [esforzarse] in vain

    dar golpes en vago — to flail about, beat the air

    2. SM/ F
    1) (=holgazán) idler, lazybones *; (=inútil) useless individual, dead loss
    2) (=vagabundo) tramp, vagrant, bum (EEUU); (=pobre) down-and-out
    * * *
    I
    - ga adjetivo
    1) (fam) < persona> lazy, idle
    2) <recuerdo/idea> vague, hazy; <contorno/forma> vague, indistinct; < explicación> vague
    II
    - ga masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq)
    * * *
    I
    - ga adjetivo
    1) (fam) < persona> lazy, idle
    2) <recuerdo/idea> vague, hazy; <contorno/forma> vague, indistinct; < explicación> vague
    II
    - ga masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq)
    * * *
    vago1
    1 = slacker, bum, lazybones, layabout, idler.

    Ex: The article is entitled 'No slackers here: SLA's youngest members have the vision and enthusiasm to shape the profession'.

    Ex: Although the results provide support for the 'drunken bum' theory of wife beating, they also demythologize the stereotype because alcohol is shown to be far from a necessary or sufficient cause of wife abuse.
    Ex: Many see his art as a vocation for lazybones and social misfits.
    Ex: There is no evidence that inherited wealth is in itself responsible for turning young people into useless layabouts.
    Ex: This magazine prints essays and stories that celebrate the joyful life of an idler.
    * persona vaga y mal vestida = slob.

    vago2
    2 = dim [dimmer -comp., dimmest -sup.], fuzzy [fuzzier - comp., fuzziest -sup.], vague [vaguer -comp., vaguest -sup.], feeble, loose [looser -comp., loosest -sup.], wooly [woolier -comp., wooliest -sup.], indistinct, indistinctive, nebulous.

    Ex: The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.

    Ex: This is a rather fuzzy basis for establishing subject headings, but fuzziness is not the guidelines only fault.
    Ex: Some of the terms are vague.
    Ex: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.
    Ex: Kast points out that there is a 'rather loose, conglomeration of interests and approaches' in this developing field.
    Ex: On the other side, some aspects of the planning study remains wooly.
    Ex: The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.
    Ex: This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.
    Ex: The concept of such a center remained nebulous at best, and we later learned that communication problems early on had muddied the message about what was really needed.
    * de manera vaga = hazily.

    * * *
    vago1 -ga
    A ( fam); ‹persona› lazy, idle
    B ‹recuerdo/idea› vague, hazy; ‹contorno/forma› vague, indistinct
    hay un vago parecido entre los dos there is a vague resemblance between them
    me dio una explicación muy vaga de lo que había sucedido she gave me a very vague explanation of what had happened, she only explained very vaguely what had happened
    tengo la vaga sensación de haberlo visto antes I have a vague feeling I've seen him before
    vago2 -ga
    masculine, feminine
    ( fam)
    layabout, slacker ( colloq)
    deja ya de hacer el vago y ponte a trabajar stop lazing around and get some work done ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    Del verbo vagar: ( conjugate vagar)

    vago es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    vagó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    vagar    
    vago
    vagar ( conjugate vagar) verbo intransitivo
    to wander, roam
    vago
    ◊ -ga adjetivo

    1 (fam) ‹ persona› lazy, idle
    2 ‹recuerdo/idea› vague, hazy;
    ‹contorno/forma› vague, indistinct;
    ‹explicación/parecido› vague
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (fam) layabout, slacker (colloq);

    vagar vi (ir sin rumbo fijo) to wander, roam: vagamos por la ciudad toda la noche, we wandered around the town all night long
    vagaba por el desierto, he was wandering about in the desert
    vago,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 pey (holgazán) lazy
    2 (difuso) slight, vague: tiene una vaga idea de lo que ocurrió, he has a vague idea of what happened
    II m,f (gandul) layabout
    ' vago' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    boluda
    - boludo
    - floja
    - flojo
    - sambenito
    - señorito
    - vaga
    - hecho
    - indeterminado
    English:
    bone-idle
    - dim
    - do-nothing
    - easy-going
    - faint
    - hazy
    - indistinct
    - layabout
    - obscure
    - screw around
    - slack
    - slob
    - swan about
    - swan around
    - vague
    - work shy
    - bum
    - wooly
    * * *
    vago, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [persona] lazy, idle;
    Fam Hum
    2. [imagen, recuerdo] vague
    3. Med
    nervio vago vagus nerve
    ♦ nm,f
    lazy person, idler;
    ser un vago to be lazy o idle
    ♦ nm
    hacer el vago to laze around
    * * *
    I adj
    1 ( holgazán) lazy;
    hacer el vago laze around
    2 ( indefinido) vague
    II m, vaga f idler, Br
    layabout fam
    * * *
    vago, -ga adj
    1) : vague
    2) perezoso: lazy, idle
    vago, -ga n
    1) : idler, loafer
    2) vagabundo: vagrant, bum
    * * *
    vago1 adj
    1. (gandul) lazy [comp. lazier; superl. laziest]
    2. (impreciso) vague
    vago2 n lazybones

    Spanish-English dictionary > vago

  • 38 alfeñique

    m.
    1 barley sugar, stick of barley sugar, sugar paste, almond paste.
    2 skinny person, feeble person, thin and weak person, weed.
    * * *
    1 (pasta) sugar paste
    2 figurado (persona) weakling
    3 figurado (remilgo) primness, affectation
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=persona débil) weakling
    2) (=afectación) affectation
    3) (Culin) toffee-like paste, almond-flavoured o (EEUU) -flavored sugar paste
    * * *
    masculino (fam) ( persona) wimp (colloq)
    * * *
    = weakling, runt, nesh, weedy [weedier -comp., weediest -sup.], wimp, softy [softie].
    Ex. According to Safire, when a slice a cake was put before him Putin said 'Sweets are for weaklings and children'.
    Ex. Under the same regimens of treatment the number of runts produced varied from none to as much as 80 per cent of the litter.
    Ex. Usually, half of us would sleep on the ground outside and the other half would go for the nesh option of sleeping in a tent or hut.
    Ex. Shock as boofy blokes beat weedy intellectual in popularity contest.
    Ex. I am the wimpiest wimp who ever wimped when it comes to surgery.
    Ex. She has a tendency to be a softy, although she does carry the brunt of the authority in the household.
    * * *
    masculino (fam) ( persona) wimp (colloq)
    * * *
    = weakling, runt, nesh, weedy [weedier -comp., weediest -sup.], wimp, softy [softie].

    Ex: According to Safire, when a slice a cake was put before him Putin said 'Sweets are for weaklings and children'.

    Ex: Under the same regimens of treatment the number of runts produced varied from none to as much as 80 per cent of the litter.
    Ex: Usually, half of us would sleep on the ground outside and the other half would go for the nesh option of sleeping in a tent or hut.
    Ex: Shock as boofy blokes beat weedy intellectual in popularity contest.
    Ex: I am the wimpiest wimp who ever wimped when it comes to surgery.
    Ex: She has a tendency to be a softy, although she does carry the brunt of the authority in the household.

    * * *
    1 ( fam) (persona) wimp ( colloq), weed ( BrE colloq)
    2 (golosina) caramel bar
    * * *
    Fam [persona] wimp
    * * *
    m fam
    wimp fam
    * * *
    alfeñique nm, fam : wimp, weakling

    Spanish-English dictionary > alfeñique

  • 39 blandengue

    adj.
    2 softy, softie, soft, namby-pamby.
    3 flabby.
    f. & m.
    namby-pamby, softie, softy.
    * * *
    1 (débil) weak, feeble
    2 (fofo) flabby
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo (fam)
    a) < mezcla> soft, runny
    b) < persona> soft
    II
    masculino y femenino (fam) ( persona débil) softy (colloq)
    * * *
    = pushover, softy [softie], mushy [mushier -comp., mushiest -sup.].
    Ex. The author explores the myths about female leaders; they are either too soft due to their predisposition as nurturers and thus are pushovers; or they are too assertive when they assume an alpha role in the organization.
    Ex. She has a tendency to be a softy, although she does carry the brunt of the authority in the household.
    Ex. Microwaved stuff is always mushier than if you put it into the oven.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo (fam)
    a) < mezcla> soft, runny
    b) < persona> soft
    II
    masculino y femenino (fam) ( persona débil) softy (colloq)
    * * *
    = pushover, softy [softie], mushy [mushier -comp., mushiest -sup.].

    Ex: The author explores the myths about female leaders; they are either too soft due to their predisposition as nurturers and thus are pushovers; or they are too assertive when they assume an alpha role in the organization.

    Ex: She has a tendency to be a softy, although she does carry the brunt of the authority in the household.
    Ex: Microwaved stuff is always mushier than if you put it into the oven.

    * * *
    1 ( fam); ‹mezcla› soft, runny
    la gelatina me quedó un poco blandengue the jello ( AmE) o ( BrE) jelly was a bit runny o wasn't set enough
    2 ( fam); ‹persona› soft
    B
    * * *

    blandengue sustantivo masculino y femenino & adj fam pey weak (person) with no backbone: no le pidas ayuda a ese blandengue, don't ask that weakling for help
    ' blandengue' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    débil
    English:
    pathetic
    - wet
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    Fam
    1. [material] soft;
    la tarta ha quedado muy blandengue the cake has turned out a bit soggy
    2. [persona] weak, wimpish
    ♦ nmf
    1. Fam [persona] softie;
    Pey wimp
    2. Hist
    los Blandengues = ceremonial guard of the Uruguayan president
    * * *
    fam desp
    I adj soft fam
    II m/f softy fam

    Spanish-English dictionary > blandengue

  • 40 cretino1

    1 = moron, cretin.
    Ex. This thesaurus contains a number of wretched, insensitive cross-references, like from Dumb to DEAF, and from Feeble minded, Imbecility, and morons to MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
    Ex. Cretin is a word derived from an 18th century Swiss-French word meaning Christian.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cretino1

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