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41 áspero
• asperous• brusque• gruelling• gruffness• harry• harsh color• harsh scream• harsh-sounding voice• raucous -
42 barrera cultural
(n.) = cultural barrierEx. The harsh economic environment, cultural barriers, social disempowerment, and low levels of information literacy are among the constraining factors analyzed.* * *(n.) = cultural barrierEx: The harsh economic environment, cultural barriers, social disempowerment, and low levels of information literacy are among the constraining factors analyzed.
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43 caricaturista
f. & m.1 caricaturist.2 cartoonist, caricaturist.* * *1 caricaturist* * *SMF1) (=dibujante) caricaturist2) [de periódico, dibujos animados] cartoonist* * *masculino y femenino caricaturist* * *= cartoonist, caricaturist.Ex. Writers, photographers, and cartoonists create their original literary and artistic works.Ex. Particularly harsh treatment was meted out to political caricaturists, who were heavily censored & regulated by the government.----* caricaturista político = political cartoonist.* * *masculino y femenino caricaturist* * *= cartoonist, caricaturist.Ex: Writers, photographers, and cartoonists create their original literary and artistic works.
Ex: Particularly harsh treatment was meted out to political caricaturists, who were heavily censored & regulated by the government.* caricaturista político = political cartoonist.* * *caricaturist* * *caricaturista nmfcaricaturist* * *m/f caricaturist* * *caricaturista nmf: caricaturist, cartoonist -
44 chillón2
2 = harsh [harsher -comp., harshest -sup.], garish, lurid, glaring.Ex. In this unhappy pattern SLIS are not being singled out for especially harsh treatment.Ex. Some of the streets transform at night with garish neon lights and red lanterns signifying houses of pleasure.Ex. When she discovered vintage comics and their lurid covers, she went nuts.Ex. Librarians have to compete with outside attractions such as glaring advertisements and screaming television!.----* amarillo chillón = bright yellow.* naranja chillón, naranja fuerte = bright orange.* verde chillón = parrot green. -
45 condenar
v.1 to convict (declarar culpable).El juez condenó al criminal The judge convicted the criminal.2 to condemn.El grupo condenó sus actos The group condemned his actions.3 to seal up, to close for good.El municipio condenó el edificio The town council sealed up the building.4 to doom, to condemn to ruination, to damn, to reprobate.Sus vicios condenaron a Ricardo His vices condemned Richard.* * *1 DERECHO (declarar culpable) to convict, find guilty2 DERECHO (decretar condena) to sentence, condemn3 (desaprobar) to condemn4 (forzar) to condemn, doom5 (tabicar) to wall up, brick up1 to be damned, condemn oneself* * *verb1) to condemn2) sentence, convict3) damn* * *1. VT1) (=desaprobar, criticar) to condemn2) (Jur) to convict, find guilty, sentence; [a pena capital] to condemncondenar a algn a tres meses de cárcel — to sentence sb to three months in jail, give sb a three-month prison sentence
3) (Rel) to damn4) (Arquit) to wall up, block up5) † * (=fastidiar) to vex, annoy2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) (Der) to sentence, condemncondenar a alguien a muerte — to condemn o sentence somebody to death
lo condenaron al pago de $100.000 — they ordered him to pay $100,000
b) ( obligar)c) (reprobar, censurar) to condemn2)a) <puerta/ventana> ( con ladrillos) to brick up; ( con tablas) to board upb) ( inhabilitar) <habitación/sala> to close up2.condenarse v pron to be damned* * *= condemn, damn, impose + prison sentence, sentence, convict, indict.Ex. It must, however, also be considered as a major source of the 'subject index illusion' so trenchantly condemned by Bliss, as mentioned below.Ex. The play is damned by the critics but packs in the crowds and the producers may be upset by the adverse criticisms but they can, as the saying goes, cry all the way to the bank.Ex. The volunteer librarians have been subjected to an ongoing campaign of persecution, culminating in the recent harsh crackdown which, after one-day trials, imposed prison sentences of up to 26 years on librarians.Ex. The library provides services to 2,903 adults and juveniles who have been sentenced or remanded to the care of the Department.Ex. After a preliminary acquittal, they were retried and convicted, causing public outrage, especially among artists.Ex. Another problem with the statistical analysis used to indict this and similar schools was the sample.----* condenar a la pena de muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.* condenar a muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.* ser condenado a prisión = receive + prison sentence.* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) (Der) to sentence, condemncondenar a alguien a muerte — to condemn o sentence somebody to death
lo condenaron al pago de $100.000 — they ordered him to pay $100,000
b) ( obligar)c) (reprobar, censurar) to condemn2)a) <puerta/ventana> ( con ladrillos) to brick up; ( con tablas) to board upb) ( inhabilitar) <habitación/sala> to close up2.condenarse v pron to be damned* * *= condemn, damn, impose + prison sentence, sentence, convict, indict.Ex: It must, however, also be considered as a major source of the 'subject index illusion' so trenchantly condemned by Bliss, as mentioned below.
Ex: The play is damned by the critics but packs in the crowds and the producers may be upset by the adverse criticisms but they can, as the saying goes, cry all the way to the bank.Ex: The volunteer librarians have been subjected to an ongoing campaign of persecution, culminating in the recent harsh crackdown which, after one-day trials, imposed prison sentences of up to 26 years on librarians.Ex: The library provides services to 2,903 adults and juveniles who have been sentenced or remanded to the care of the Department.Ex: After a preliminary acquittal, they were retried and convicted, causing public outrage, especially among artists.Ex: Another problem with the statistical analysis used to indict this and similar schools was the sample.* condenar a la pena de muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.* condenar a muerte = sentence + Nombre + to death, condemn + Nombre + to death.* ser condenado a prisión = receive + prison sentence.* * *condenar [A1 ]vtA1 ( Der) to condemn condenar a algn A algo:lo condenaron a tres años de cárcel he was sentenced to three years imprisonmentel tribunal lo condenó al pago de una indemnización de $100.000 the court ordered him to pay $100,000 (in) compensationlo condenaron a muerte he was condemned o sentenced to deathla condenaron en costas she was ordered to pay costs, costs were awarded against her2 (obligar) condenar a algn A algo to condemn sb TO sthel desempleo los condena a vivir de la mendicidad unemployment condemns o forces o obliges them to live by begging3 (desaprobar, censurar) to condemncondenó el atentado he condemned the attackB1 ‹puerta/ventana› (con ladrillos) to brick up; (con tablas) to board up2 (inhabilitar) ‹habitación/sala› to close upto be damned, go to hell* * *
condenar ( conjugate condenar) verbo transitivoa) (Der) to sentence, condemn;
condenar a algn a algo to sentence sb to sth;
lo condenaron por robo he was convicted of or found guilty of robbery
condenar verbo transitivo
1 Jur to convict, find guilty: lo condenaron a muerte, he was condemned to death
2 (reprobar) to condemn
3 (tapiar una entrada) to wall up
' condenar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
desaprobar
- sentenciar
- denunciar
English:
condemn
- convict
- damn
- doom
- sentence
- deplore
* * *♦ vt1. [declarar culpable] to convictfue condenado a muerte he was sentenced o condemned to death;fue condenado a tres años de prisión he was sentenced to three years in prison;fue condenado a pagar una multa de 15.000 pesos he was ordered to pay a fine of 15,000 pesos;la condenaron a no salir de casa durante los fines de semana they punished her by grounding her at weekendsesa iniciativa está condenada al fracaso that initiative is doomed to failure;los supervivientes están condenados a morir de hambre the survivors are condemned to die of starvation4. [reprobar] to condemn;todos los partidos condenaron el atentado all parties condemned the attack5. [tapiar] [con ladrillos] to brick up, to wall up;[con tablas] to board up* * *v/t1 JUR sentence (a to)2 ( desaprobar) condemn* * *condenar vt1) : to condemn2) : to sentence3) : to board up, to wall up* * *condenar vb1. (a una pena) to sentence2. (un delito) to convict3. (desaprobar) to condemn -
46 coraje
m.1 courage.2 anger (rabia).me da mucho coraje it makes me furious* * *1 (valor) courage, toughness2 (ira) anger\dar coraje familiar to infuriate, make furiousecharle coraje a algo to put some spirit into something* * *noun m.* * *SM1) (=valor) couragedebes tener coraje y enfrentarte a la realidad — you have to be brave o have courage and face up to reality
2) * (=rabia)hemos perdido el autobús, ¡qué coraje! — we've missed the bus, what a pain! *
me da coraje que me mientas — it makes me mad * o it really annoys me when you lie to me
me da coraje verlo pasear con mi novia — it makes me mad to see him walking around with my girlfriend *
* * *a) ( valor) courageb) (fam) ( desfachatez) nervequé coraje! — what a lot of nerve! (AmE), what a nerve! (BrE)
c) (Esp, Méx fam) ( rabia)* * *= courage, guts, bravery.Ex. In this novel the central themes are courage and cowardice and what these are.Ex. Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.Ex. Contributing to the problem are the harsh desert environment, & a society based on patriarchy, in which a code of honor, esprit de corps, & bravery takes precedence over intelligence & culture.----* dar coraje = peeve.* echar coraje = pluck up + courage, gather up + courage.* falta de coraje = act of cowardice, lack of courage, lack of backbone.* tener coraje = pluck up + courage, gather up + courage.* * *a) ( valor) courageb) (fam) ( desfachatez) nervequé coraje! — what a lot of nerve! (AmE), what a nerve! (BrE)
c) (Esp, Méx fam) ( rabia)* * *= courage, guts, bravery.Ex: In this novel the central themes are courage and cowardice and what these are.
Ex: Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.Ex: Contributing to the problem are the harsh desert environment, & a society based on patriarchy, in which a code of honor, esprit de corps, & bravery takes precedence over intelligence & culture.* dar coraje = peeve.* echar coraje = pluck up + courage, gather up + courage.* falta de coraje = act of cowardice, lack of courage, lack of backbone.* tener coraje = pluck up + courage, gather up + courage.* * *1 (valor) couragetuvo el coraje de reconocer su error he had the courage o ( colloq) guts to admit his mistake2 ( fam) (desfachatez) nerve3(Esp, Méx fam) (rabia): me da coraje pensar cómo me engañaron it makes me mad to think how I was tricked ( colloq)* * *
coraje sustantivo masculino
◊ ¡qué coraje! what a lot of nerve! (AmE), what a nerve! (BrE)
coraje sustantivo masculino
1 (entereza) courage
2 (rabia) anger: me da coraje oír esas cosas, it infuriates me when I hear that kind of thing
' coraje' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
saña
- temple
- valiente
- ánimo
- timidez
- tímido
- valor
English:
courage
- gumption
- nerve
- spunk
- daring
* * *coraje nm1. [valor] courage;tener coraje to be brave, to have courage;no tuvo el coraje de admitir que estaba equivocado he didn't have the courage to admit that he was wrong2. [rabia] anger;me da mucho coraje it makes me furious* * *m courage;me da coraje fig fam it makes me mad fam* * *coraje nm1) valor: valor, courage2) ira: angerdarle coraje a alguien: to make someone angry* * *coraje n courage -
47 cruel
adj.cruel.* * *► adjetivo1 (persona) cruel (con/para, to)2 (clima) harsh, severe* * *adj.* * *ADJ cruel* * *adjetivo cruella venganza será cruel — (hum) just you wait! (I'll get you!) (colloq)
* * *= brutal, cruel, perverse, unkind, callous, cold-blooded, merciless, brutish, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat.Nota: Adjetivo.Ex. Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.Ex. With cruel suddenness she was being called upon to cover up for him.Ex. The demand for business information, in relation to its price, is rather perverse in that high price often generates a high demand.Ex. The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.Ex. Not all large publishing companies are conducted in a callous and philistine manner, motivated solely by profit.Ex. He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.Ex. The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.Ex. In his most famous work, the Leviathan, Hobbes famously argued that life in the state of nature is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.Ex. One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.Ex. However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.Ex. As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.----* volverse cruel = become + vicious.* * *adjetivo cruella venganza será cruel — (hum) just you wait! (I'll get you!) (colloq)
* * *= brutal, cruel, perverse, unkind, callous, cold-blooded, merciless, brutish, ferocious, heartless, cutthroat.Nota: Adjetivo.Ex: Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.
Ex: With cruel suddenness she was being called upon to cover up for him.Ex: The demand for business information, in relation to its price, is rather perverse in that high price often generates a high demand.Ex: The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.Ex: Not all large publishing companies are conducted in a callous and philistine manner, motivated solely by profit.Ex: He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.Ex: The author discusses art critic Harry Quilter, usually remembered today as 'Arry,' the butt of merciless lampooning by J.M. Whistler.Ex: In his most famous work, the Leviathan, Hobbes famously argued that life in the state of nature is 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.Ex: One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.Ex: However, I knew there was a problem when I actually cared more about the relationship between the secondary characters of Josh McCool, heartless flunky of Warren's, and Mia.Ex: As the saying goes, 'Be as innocent as a lamb, and as wily as a fox' -- shrewdness is a valuable attribute in this cutthroat world.* volverse cruel = become + vicious.* * *cruelaquello fue una jugada cruel del destino that was a cruel twist of fatefueron muy crueles con él they were very cruel to him* * *
cruel adjetivo
cruel;
cruel adjetivo cruel
' cruel' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
bárbara
- bárbaro
- cebarse
- desalmada
- desalmado
- draconiana
- draconiano
- mirada
- salvaje
- sañosa
- sañoso
- sañuda
- sañudo
- truculenta
- truculento
- verduga
- verdugo
- crueldad
- inhumano
- sanguinario
English:
brutal
- callous
- cheap
- cruel
- cutthroat
- hard
- heartless
- inhuman
- savage
- unkind
- vicious
- blood
- cold
- fiend
- inhumane
- inhumanity
- outrage
* * *cruel adj1. [persona, acción] cruel;fuiste muy cruel con ella you were very cruel to her2. [dolor] excruciating, terrible3. [clima] harsh4. [duda] terrible* * *adj cruel* * *cruel adj: cruel♦ cruelmente adv* * *cruel adj cruel -
48 desafortunado
adj.unfortunate, unlucky, poor, fateful.* * *► adjetivo1 (sin suerte) unlucky, unfortunate2 (sin tino) unfortunate* * *(f. - desafortunada)adj.unfortunate, unlucky* * *ADJ1) (=desgraciado) unfortunate, unlucky2) (=no oportuno) [comentario, anuncio] inopportune, unfortunate; [decisión, medida] unfortunate* * *- da adjetivoa) ( desdichado) < persona> unlucky; < suceso> unfortunateb) ( desacertado) <medidas/actuación> unfortunate* * *= hapless, unfortunate, unhappy, inauspicious, unlucky, infelicitous, fateful, off-beam.Ex. From the skimming he had given their writings he knew that something like a chemical agent was working in Balzac's defenseless mind, and that the hapless fellow was trying not to succumb to it.Ex. It is an unfortunate fact that many external services cannot hope to mirror the interests of a specific organisation.Ex. In this unhappy pattern SLIS are not being singled out for especially harsh treatment.Ex. In retrospect, this was perhaps a rather inauspicious beginning, for the test apparently broke down in disarray over the question of relevance judgement.Ex. Secondly, a clean proof of the sheet was generally shown to the author for his approval and (if the printer was unlucky) his second thoughts.Ex. Past failures to make interactive machine translation viable as a tool for skilled translators have been the result of an infelicitous mode of interaction rather than any inherent flaw in the idea.Ex. The Russian delegation also presented a handmade book to the National Library of Scotland in remembrance of that fateful Moscow meeting.Ex. The director goes where even the previous two movies feared to tread -- to an exquisitely off-beam imaginary world of arrested adolescence.----* Algo desafortunado = infelicity.* * *- da adjetivoa) ( desdichado) < persona> unlucky; < suceso> unfortunateb) ( desacertado) <medidas/actuación> unfortunate* * *= hapless, unfortunate, unhappy, inauspicious, unlucky, infelicitous, fateful, off-beam.Ex: From the skimming he had given their writings he knew that something like a chemical agent was working in Balzac's defenseless mind, and that the hapless fellow was trying not to succumb to it.
Ex: It is an unfortunate fact that many external services cannot hope to mirror the interests of a specific organisation.Ex: In this unhappy pattern SLIS are not being singled out for especially harsh treatment.Ex: In retrospect, this was perhaps a rather inauspicious beginning, for the test apparently broke down in disarray over the question of relevance judgement.Ex: Secondly, a clean proof of the sheet was generally shown to the author for his approval and (if the printer was unlucky) his second thoughts.Ex: Past failures to make interactive machine translation viable as a tool for skilled translators have been the result of an infelicitous mode of interaction rather than any inherent flaw in the idea.Ex: The Russian delegation also presented a handmade book to the National Library of Scotland in remembrance of that fateful Moscow meeting.Ex: The director goes where even the previous two movies feared to tread -- to an exquisitely off-beam imaginary world of arrested adolescence.* Algo desafortunado = infelicity.* * *desafortunado -da1 (desdichado) ‹persona› unlucky; ‹suceso› unfortunatesiempre ha sido desafortunado en amores/en el juego he's always been unlucky in love/at cardsha sido un día desafortunado it's been an unfortunate day2 (desacertado) ‹medidas/actuación› unfortunateel diestro estuvo desafortunado con la espada the matador performed poorly with the swordsu respuesta fue desafortunada his reply was tactless o unfortunate* * *
desafortunado◊ -da adjetivo
‹ suceso› unfortunate
desafortunado,-a adjetivo
1 (sin suerte) unlucky, unfortunate
2 (inoportuno) inopportune: un comentario desafortunado, an unfortunate remark
' desafortunado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
desafortunada
- salada
- salado
- desgraciado
English:
unfortunate
- unhappy
- unlucky
- hapless
* * *desafortunado, -a♦ adj1. [desgraciado] unfortunate;el desafortunado suceso ocurrió ayer the unfortunate event occurred yesterday;un día desafortunado en las carreteras a black day on the roads2. [desacertado] unfortunate;un comentario desafortunado an unfortunate remark;el equipo tuvo una desafortunada actuación the team performed below par;el ministro estuvo bastante desafortunado the minister made some unfortunate remarks3. [sin suerte] unlucky;fue muy desafortunada en amores she was very unlucky in love♦ nm,funlucky person* * *adj unfortunate, unlucky* * *desafortunado, -da adj: unfortunate, unlucky♦ desafortunadamente adv* * *desafortunado adj unfortunate -
49 desalentar
v.to dishearten, to discourage.Su apariencia desalentó a su admirador Her looks discouraged her fan.El fracaso desalienta a los chicos Failure discourages the kids.* * *1 (dificultar el aliento) to leave breathless, make get out of breath2 figurado (quitar el ánimo) to discourage, dishearten1 to lose heart, get discouraged* * *verb* * *1. VT1) (=desanimar) to discourage2) (=agotar) to make breathless2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo to discourage, dishearten2.desalentarse v pron to become disheartened o discouraged* * *= discourage, dampen, dispirit, dishearten, dampen + Posesivo + spirits.Ex. Several pages of entries under one keyword are discouraging to say the least.Ex. Ten years ago ambition abounded; now risk-taking is out of style and vanguardism has been dampened by a pervasive enthusiasm for the past.Ex. Adverse fortune may attend us, but it shall never dispirit us.Ex. It is easy to be disheartened by the negative flow of news, but the strength of our labor market should bolster the confidence of our outlook.Ex. Despite being physically challenged, the harsh realities of life have failed to dampen her spirits.----* desalentar (de) = deter (from).* desalentarse = dismay.* * *1.verbo transitivo to discourage, dishearten2.desalentarse v pron to become disheartened o discouraged* * *desalentar(de)(v.) = deter (from)Ex: One of the most cited shortcomings of mobile advice centres, that their conspicuousness deters people from using them, does not seem to have been a problem.
= discourage, dampen, dispirit, dishearten, dampen + Posesivo + spirits.Ex: Several pages of entries under one keyword are discouraging to say the least.
Ex: Ten years ago ambition abounded; now risk-taking is out of style and vanguardism has been dampened by a pervasive enthusiasm for the past.Ex: Adverse fortune may attend us, but it shall never dispirit us.Ex: It is easy to be disheartened by the negative flow of news, but the strength of our labor market should bolster the confidence of our outlook.Ex: Despite being physically challenged, the harsh realities of life have failed to dampen her spirits.* desalentar (de) = deter (from).* desalentarse = dismay.* * *desalentar [A5 ]vtto discourageese primer fracaso lo desalentó that first failure discouraged himla situación desalentó a potenciales inversores the situation discouraged potential investorsestábamos muy entusiasmados pero su actitud nos desalentó we were very excited but his attitude took the wind out of our sails o left us feeling deflated o dispiritedto become disheartened o discouraged* * *
desalentar ( conjugate desalentar) verbo transitivo
to discourage, dishearten
desalentar verbo transitivo to discourage, dishearten
' desalentar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abatir
English:
deflate
- deter
- discourage
* * *♦ vtto dishearten, to discourage;un resultado así desalienta a cualquiera a result like this would dishearten anyone;no dejes que eso te desaliente don't let it discourage you* * *v/t discourage* * *desalentar {55} vtdesanimar: to discourage, to dishearten -
50 desanimar
v.to discourage.El fracaso desalienta a los chicos Failure discourages the kids.* * *1 to discourage, dishearten1 to be discouraged, be disheartened, lose heart* * *verb* * *1. VT1) (=desalentar) to discourage2) (=deprimir) to depress, sadden2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo to discourage2.desanimarse v pron to become disheartened o discouraged* * *= discourage, dissuade, frighten off, put + Nombre + off, put off, kill + the momentum, dampen, dispirit, lay + Nombre + low, dampen + Posesivo + spirits.Ex. Several pages of entries under one keyword are discouraging to say the least.Ex. Indeed, does the very design of our curricula dissuade the best, the brightest and the most creative from even considering entering our programs?.Ex. Then something compelled her to blurt out: 'Are you interested in the job?' 'We haven't frightened you off, have we?' ejaculated another, with a nervous laugh.Ex. Defoe's eighteenth century style full of tedious moralizing and philosophical musings, and not exactly well-stocked with dramatic excitements to relieve the steady pace, seemed not at all to put him off.Ex. Whatever the situation, prepared for or unexpected, it is always too easy to overplay one's hand, praising a book so extravagantly, so effusively, that many children are put off.Ex. Papers by Lin and coleagues advocate post-processing of downloaded bibliographic text in a way that does not kill the momentum for futher searching.Ex. Ten years ago ambition abounded; now risk-taking is out of style and vanguardism has been dampened by a pervasive enthusiasm for the past.Ex. Adverse fortune may attend us, but it shall never dispirit us.Ex. She suffered frequent flare-ups of widespread inflammation that would lay her low for days on end.Ex. Despite being physically challenged, the harsh realities of life have failed to dampen her spirits.----* desanimarse = lose + heart.* no desanimarse = keep + Posesivo + chin up.* sin dejarse desanimar = undaunted.* * *1.verbo transitivo to discourage2.desanimarse v pron to become disheartened o discouraged* * *= discourage, dissuade, frighten off, put + Nombre + off, put off, kill + the momentum, dampen, dispirit, lay + Nombre + low, dampen + Posesivo + spirits.Ex: Several pages of entries under one keyword are discouraging to say the least.
Ex: Indeed, does the very design of our curricula dissuade the best, the brightest and the most creative from even considering entering our programs?.Ex: Then something compelled her to blurt out: 'Are you interested in the job?' 'We haven't frightened you off, have we?' ejaculated another, with a nervous laugh.Ex: Defoe's eighteenth century style full of tedious moralizing and philosophical musings, and not exactly well-stocked with dramatic excitements to relieve the steady pace, seemed not at all to put him off.Ex: Whatever the situation, prepared for or unexpected, it is always too easy to overplay one's hand, praising a book so extravagantly, so effusively, that many children are put off.Ex: Papers by Lin and coleagues advocate post-processing of downloaded bibliographic text in a way that does not kill the momentum for futher searching.Ex: Ten years ago ambition abounded; now risk-taking is out of style and vanguardism has been dampened by a pervasive enthusiasm for the past.Ex: Adverse fortune may attend us, but it shall never dispirit us.Ex: She suffered frequent flare-ups of widespread inflammation that would lay her low for days on end.Ex: Despite being physically challenged, the harsh realities of life have failed to dampen her spirits.* desanimarse = lose + heart.* no desanimarse = keep + Posesivo + chin up.* sin dejarse desanimar = undaunted.* * *desanimar [A1 ]vtto discouragelo que me han contado me ha desanimado totalmente what they've told me has totally discouraged meto become disheartened o discouraged* * *
desanimar ( conjugate desanimar) verbo transitivo
to discourage
desanimarse verbo pronominal
to become disheartened o discouraged
desanimar verbo transitivo to discourage, dishearten
' desanimar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
desinflar
English:
discourage
- dishearten
- undeterred
* * *♦ vtto discourage;los comentarios de sus amigos lo han desanimado he has been put off o discouraged by his friends' comments* * *v/t discourage, dishearten* * *desanimar vtdesalentar: to discourage, to dishearten* * *desanimar vb to discourage -
51 desapacible
adj.unpleasant.* * *► adjetivo* * *ADJ [tiempo] unpleasant; [sabor, carácter] surly; [tono] harsh; [sonido] sharp, jangling; [discusión] bitter, bad-tempered; [persona] unpleasant* * *adjetivo <tiempo/día> unpleasant; <persona/carácter> irritable, bad-tempered* * *= bleak.Ex. The projections of qualified manpower into the year 2000 are bleak for personnel based industries.* * *adjetivo <tiempo/día> unpleasant; <persona/carácter> irritable, bad-tempered* * *= bleak.Ex: The projections of qualified manpower into the year 2000 are bleak for personnel based industries.
* * *1 ‹tiempo/día› unpleasantjuegos para esos días desapacibles games for a rainy day2 ‹persona/carácter› irritable, bad-tempered* * *
desapacible adjetivo nasty, unpleasant
(persona) ill-natured
* * *desapacible adj1. [tiempo, clima] unpleasant2. [carácter] unpleasant, disagreeable* * *adj nasty, unpleasant* * *desapacible adj: unpleasant, disagreeable -
52 descorazonar
v.1 to discourage.2 to dishearten, to tear the heart out, to discourage, to tear the heart.La muerte de María abatió a Ricardo Ann's death disheartened Richard.* * *1 to dishearten, discourage1 to lose heart, get discouraged* * *1.VT to discourage, dishearten2.See:* * *verbo transitivo to dishearten, discourage* * *= dispirit, dishearten, dampen + Posesivo + spirits.Ex. Adverse fortune may attend us, but it shall never dispirit us.Ex. It is easy to be disheartened by the negative flow of news, but the strength of our labor market should bolster the confidence of our outlook.Ex. Despite being physically challenged, the harsh realities of life have failed to dampen her spirits.----* descorazonarse = lose + heart.* * *verbo transitivo to dishearten, discourage* * *= dispirit, dishearten, dampen + Posesivo + spirits.Ex: Adverse fortune may attend us, but it shall never dispirit us.
Ex: It is easy to be disheartened by the negative flow of news, but the strength of our labor market should bolster the confidence of our outlook.Ex: Despite being physically challenged, the harsh realities of life have failed to dampen her spirits.* descorazonarse = lose + heart.* * *descorazonar [A1 ]vtA to dishearten, discourageB ‹manzana› to coreto lose heart, get discouraged* * *
descorazonar ( conjugate descorazonar) verbo transitivo
to dishearten, discourage
* * *♦ vtto discourage* * *v/t discourage -
53 desgraciado
adj.unfortunate, unlucky, fateful, ill-fated.f. & m.unfortunate, miserable, sorry fellow, poor wretch.past part.past participle of spanish verb: desgraciar.* * *1→ link=desgraciar desgraciar► adjetivo1 (sin suerte) unfortunate, unlucky2 (infeliz) unhappy► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 wretch, unfortunate person\ser un,-a pobre desgraciado,-a to be a poor devil* * *(f. - desgraciada)adj.* * *desgraciado, -a1. ADJ1) [persona] (=sin suerte) unlucky; (=infeliz) unhappy¡desgraciado de ti si lo haces! — you'd better not do that!, it'll be the worse for you if you do that!
2) [vida, existencia]¡qué desgraciada existencia la mía! — how wretched I am!
una vida desgraciada — a wretched life, a life of misery
3) [accidente, situación] unfortunate4) LAm (=asqueroso) lousy *2. SM / F1) (=infeliz) poor wretchla hizo una desgraciada — pey he put her in the family way, he brought shame upon her euf
2) (=miserable) swine ** * *I- da adjetivoa) [ser] ( infeliz) unhappyb) [ser] ( desafortunado) < viaje> ill-fatedc) ( desacertado) <elección/coincidencia> unfortunate, unwiseII- da masculino, femenino1) ( desdichado) wretch2) ( persona vil) swine (colloq)* * *= wretched, unhappy.Ex. A card catalog has the capability of being kept up to date, but it is a wretched way to make information available.Ex. In this unhappy pattern SLIS are not being singled out for especially harsh treatment.* * *I- da adjetivoa) [ser] ( infeliz) unhappyb) [ser] ( desafortunado) < viaje> ill-fatedc) ( desacertado) <elección/coincidencia> unfortunate, unwiseII- da masculino, femenino1) ( desdichado) wretch2) ( persona vil) swine (colloq)* * *= wretched, unhappy.Ex: A card catalog has the capability of being kept up to date, but it is a wretched way to make information available.
Ex: In this unhappy pattern SLIS are not being singled out for especially harsh treatment.* * *A1 [ SER] (infeliz) unhappyfue muy desgraciado en su matrimonio he was very unhappy in his marriagelleva una vida muy desgraciada she leads a miserable life2 [ SER](desafortunado): hay días afortunados y días desgraciados there are good days and bad daysfue un viaje desgraciado it was an ill-fated journeyser desgraciado en amores to be unlucky in love3 (desacertado) ‹elección› unfortunate, unwiseB [ SER] (vil) mean, nasty, horribleC (sin belleza) ill-favored*, unfortunate(sin gracia): ese vestido le queda muy desgraciado that dress doesn't do anything for her o is not at all flattering to hermasculine, feminineA (desdichado) wretchla pobre desgraciada the poor wretcholvídalo, no es más que un pobre desgraciado forget about him, he's nobody* * *
Del verbo desgraciar: ( conjugate desgraciar)
desgraciado es:
el participio
Multiple Entries:
desgraciado
desgraciar
desgraciado◊ -da adjetivo
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
1 ( desdichado) wretch
2 ( persona vil) swine (colloq)
desgraciado,-a
I adjetivo
1 (sin suerte, desdichado) unfortunate: aquel fue un día desgraciado, that was a most unfortunate day
2 (sin felicidad) unhappy: una vida desgraciada, an unhappy life
3 (desacertado) unwise: regalarles un libro fue una elección desgraciada, it was a bad choice to give them a book
II sustantivo masculino y femenino
1 unfortunate person
un pobre desgraciado, a poor devil
2 pey ofens wretch, vile person: ese desgraciado me golpeó en la cabeza, that despicable person hit me on the head
' desgraciado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
desgraciada
- fatalidad
- infeliz
- pringada
- pringado
English:
miserable
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- wretch
* * *desgraciado, -a♦ adj1. [desafortunado] [día] ill-fated;[suceso, accidente, casualidad] unfortunate2. [desacertado] [intervención, elección] unfortunate, unhappy3. [sin suerte] unlucky;ser desgraciado en el amor to be unlucky in love4. [infeliz] unhappy;es muy desgraciado en su trabajo he's very unhappy in his work;llevar una vida desgraciada to lead an unhappy o a miserable life5. [canalla] rotten, nasty6. [sin atractivo] unprepossessing, unattractive;tiene un físico desgraciado she is physically unattractive♦ nm,f1. [persona sin suerte] born loser2. [infeliz] wretch;es un pobre desgraciado he's a poor wretch3. [canalla] swine;¡eres un desgraciado! you're a swine!;el muy desgraciado me robó el dinero the swine stole my money* * *I adj1 unfortunate2 ( miserable) wretchedII m, desgraciada f1 ( infeliz) wretch2 ( sinvergüenza) swine fam* * *desgraciado, -da adj1) : unfortunate, unlucky2) : vile, wretcheddesgraciado, -da n: unfortunate person, wretch* * *desgraciado adj¡mira que eres desgraciado! you're so unlucky!3. (trágico) tragic / unfortunate -
54 desmoralizar
v.to demoralize.* * *1 to demoralize1 to become demoralized* * *1. VT1) [+ ejército, persona] to demoralize2) [+ costumbres] to corrupt2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo to demoralize, dishearten2.desmoralizarse v pron to get demoralized o disheartened, to lose heart* * *= cast + a pall of gloom over, dispirit, demoralise [demoralize, -USA], dishearten, dampen + Posesivo + spirits.Ex. This prolonged dry spell has cast a pall of gloom over the agrochemical business.Ex. Adverse fortune may attend us, but it shall never dispirit us.Ex. A majority of customs officials surveyed said they are demoralized and not getting the full support they need to protect the country.Ex. It is easy to be disheartened by the negative flow of news, but the strength of our labor market should bolster the confidence of our outlook.Ex. Despite being physically challenged, the harsh realities of life have failed to dampen her spirits.* * *1.verbo transitivo to demoralize, dishearten2.desmoralizarse v pron to get demoralized o disheartened, to lose heart* * *= cast + a pall of gloom over, dispirit, demoralise [demoralize, -USA], dishearten, dampen + Posesivo + spirits.Ex: This prolonged dry spell has cast a pall of gloom over the agrochemical business.
Ex: Adverse fortune may attend us, but it shall never dispirit us.Ex: A majority of customs officials surveyed said they are demoralized and not getting the full support they need to protect the country.Ex: It is easy to be disheartened by the negative flow of news, but the strength of our labor market should bolster the confidence of our outlook.Ex: Despite being physically challenged, the harsh realities of life have failed to dampen her spirits.* * *desmoralizar [A4 ]vtto demoralize, disheartento get demoralized o disheartened, to lose heart* * *
desmoralizar ( conjugate desmoralizar) verbo transitivo
to demoralize, dishearten
desmoralizarse verbo pronominal
to get demoralized o disheartened, to lose heart
desmoralizar verbo transitivo to demoralize
' desmoralizar' also found in these entries:
English:
demoralize
* * *♦ vtto demoralize* * *v/t demoralize* * *desmoralizar {21} vtdesalentar: to demoralize, to discourage -
55 disonante
adj.dissonant, discordant.f.dissonant.* * *► adjetivo1 MÚSICA dissonant, discordant2 figurado discordant* * *ADJ1) (Mús) dissonant2) (=discordante) discordant* * ** * *= jarring, dissonant, unharmonious, out of tune.Ex. The protagonist experiences a jarring descent from the heights of literary distinction at court to the coarseness of common experience.Ex. Public policies have created a framework for service that may be dissonant with the ideals of the transformational value of reading.Ex. The lighting is good but made unharmonious by the use of colour tints.Ex. Soon they started receiving complaints that he left the pianos more out of tune than he found them.----* de un modo disonante = jarringly.* * ** * *= jarring, dissonant, unharmonious, out of tune.Ex: The protagonist experiences a jarring descent from the heights of literary distinction at court to the coarseness of common experience.
Ex: Public policies have created a framework for service that may be dissonant with the ideals of the transformational value of reading.Ex: The lighting is good but made unharmonious by the use of colour tints.Ex: Soon they started receiving complaints that he left the pianos more out of tune than he found them.* de un modo disonante = jarringly.* * *1 ( Mús) dissonant2 ‹voz› discordant3 ‹colores› clashing* * *
disonante adjetivo (Mús) dissonant;
‹ voz› discordant;
‹ colores› clashing
disonante adjetivo harsh, dissonant: nunca dice una palabra disonante, he never says a harsh word
' disonante' also found in these entries:
English:
tuneless
- discord
* * *disonante adj1. [sonidos, ritmos, voces] dissonant, discordant2. [colores, estilos] clashing;ese sofá queda de lo más disonante that sofa simply screams it doesn't belong there -
56 durante los próximos años
= for the next few years, over the next few years, during the next few yearsEx. There is no doubt that this scheme deserves to succeed, but we live in a harsh world, where success tends to go to the successful rather than to the deserving, and one can only reserve judgement for the next few years.Ex. However, as the proportion of elderly people in the population rises sharply over next few years advertising and retail executives will need to rethink their sales strategies.Ex. Of all the factors influencing the on-line information services industry during the next few years, telephone deregulation could well be the most important.* * *= for the next few years, over the next few years, during the next few yearsEx: There is no doubt that this scheme deserves to succeed, but we live in a harsh world, where success tends to go to the successful rather than to the deserving, and one can only reserve judgement for the next few years.
Ex: However, as the proportion of elderly people in the population rises sharply over next few years advertising and retail executives will need to rethink their sales strategies.Ex: Of all the factors influencing the on-line information services industry during the next few years, telephone deregulation could well be the most important. -
57 enemistad
f.enmity.su enemistad duraba ya años they've been enemies for yearssiento una profunda enemistad hacia ellos I feel intense hatred for themimperat.2nd person plural (vosotros/vosotras) Imperative of Spanish verb: enemistar.* * *1 hostility, enmity, hatred* * *SF enmity* * *femenino enmity* * *= feud, enmity, bad blood.Ex. In doing so, the library created a rift that prohibited dialogue and created something of a feud between the copyright owner and the library.Ex. The author concludes that the 6 major threats are: error; embezzlement; eavesdropping; espionage; enmity; and extortion.Ex. The conventional explanation of bad blood between Koreans and Japanese isthe 35 years of harsh Japanese occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945.----* enemistad a muerte = blood feud.* enemistad mortal = blood feud, vendetta.* * *femenino enmity* * *= feud, enmity, bad blood.Ex: In doing so, the library created a rift that prohibited dialogue and created something of a feud between the copyright owner and the library.
Ex: The author concludes that the 6 major threats are: error; embezzlement; eavesdropping; espionage; enmity; and extortion.Ex: The conventional explanation of bad blood between Koreans and Japanese isthe 35 years of harsh Japanese occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945.* enemistad a muerte = blood feud.* enemistad mortal = blood feud, vendetta.* * *enmity* * *
Del verbo enemistar: ( conjugate enemistar)
enemistad es:
2ª persona plural (vosotros) imperativo
Multiple Entries:
enemistad
enemistar
enemistad sustantivo femenino
enmity
enemistar ( conjugate enemistar) verbo transitivo ‹dos facciones/países› to make enemies of;
ella los enemistó she turned them against each other
enemistarse verbo pronominal
to fall out;
enemistadse con algn (por algo) to fall out with sb (over sth)
enemistad sustantivo femenino enmity
enemistar verbo transitivo to cause a rift between
' enemistad' also found in these entries:
English:
coolness
- enmity
- feud
* * *enemistad nfenmity;su enemistad duraba ya años they had been enemies for years;una enemistad entre familias a family feud;siento una profunda enemistad hacia ellos I feel intense hatred for them* * *f enmity* * *enemistad nf: enmity, hostility -
58 espantoso
adj.frightening, frightful, fearsome, dreadful.* * *► adjetivo1 (terrible) frightful, dreadful2 (asombroso) astonishing, amazing3 (desmesurado) dreadful, terrible■ hizo un frío espantoso the cold was awful, it was absolutely freezing* * *(f. - espantosa)adj.1) frightening2) dreadful* * *ADJ1) (=aterrador) frightening2) [para exagerar]llevaba un traje espantoso — she was wearing an awful o a hideous o a frightful o ghastly * hat
había un ruido espantoso — there was a terrible o dreadful noise
* * *- sa adjetivoa) <escena/crimen> horrific, appallingb) (fam) ( uso hiperbólico) <comida/letra/tiempo> atrocious; <vestido/color> hideous; <ruido/voz> terrible, awfulhace un calor espantoso — it's boiling o roasting hot (colloq)
tengo un hambre espantosa — I'm starving (colloq)
* * *= frightening, harrowing, atrocious, awful, frightful, dire, ghastly, fear-inducing, hideous, shocking, horrible, dreadful, grisly [grislier -comp., grisliest -sup.], god-awful, groundshaking, nightmarish.Ex. No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.Ex. See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.Ex. The public library's selection of books for small boys is atrocious.Ex. These articles were written by those who have had first hand experience of the awful consequences of not devoting enough time to testing their security systems.Ex. The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Ex. Throughout the process of development, debate and enactment of the Digital Millennium Act in the USA, many dire forebodings were envisaged for the library profession.Ex. True, ghastly additions were made to XML.Ex. The author suggests that the ability to enjoy fear-inducing media increases with age.Ex. The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex. The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.Ex. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex. The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex. Much of what he sees and shows his readers is grim, if not grisly.Ex. The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.Ex. The author gives an insider's perspective on what it feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war.Ex. It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.----* dolor de cabeza espantoso = splitting headache.* * *- sa adjetivoa) <escena/crimen> horrific, appallingb) (fam) ( uso hiperbólico) <comida/letra/tiempo> atrocious; <vestido/color> hideous; <ruido/voz> terrible, awfulhace un calor espantoso — it's boiling o roasting hot (colloq)
tengo un hambre espantosa — I'm starving (colloq)
* * *= frightening, harrowing, atrocious, awful, frightful, dire, ghastly, fear-inducing, hideous, shocking, horrible, dreadful, grisly [grislier -comp., grisliest -sup.], god-awful, groundshaking, nightmarish.Ex: No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.
Ex: See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.Ex: The public library's selection of books for small boys is atrocious.Ex: These articles were written by those who have had first hand experience of the awful consequences of not devoting enough time to testing their security systems.Ex: The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Ex: Throughout the process of development, debate and enactment of the Digital Millennium Act in the USA, many dire forebodings were envisaged for the library profession.Ex: True, ghastly additions were made to XML.Ex: The author suggests that the ability to enjoy fear-inducing media increases with age.Ex: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex: The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.Ex: Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex: The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex: Much of what he sees and shows his readers is grim, if not grisly.Ex: The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.Ex: The author gives an insider's perspective on what it feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war.Ex: It was the drugs that made me mad: Jane was anorexic, but the treatment prescribed pushed her over the edge for 22 nightmarish years.* dolor de cabeza espantoso = splitting headache.* * *espantoso -sa1 ‹escena/crimen› horrific, appallingfue una experiencia espantosa it was a horrific o horrifying experience2 ( fam)(uso hiperbólico): hace un calor espantoso it's boiling o roasting, it's incredibly o unbearably hot ( colloq)pasamos un frío espantoso we were absolutely freezing ( colloq)tengo un hambre espantosa I'm ravenous o starving ( colloq)la comida era espantosa the food was atrocious o ghastly¡qué sombrero tan espantoso! what a hideous o an awful hatesta máquina hace un ruido espantoso this machine makes a terrible o dreadful noise ( colloq)* * *
espantoso◊ -sa adjetivo
‹vestido/color› hideous;
‹ruido/voz› terrible, awful;◊ pasé un frío espantoso I was absolutely freezing (colloq)
espantoso,-a adjetivo
1 (horripilante) horrifying, appalling: es un asunto espantoso, it's a horrifying situation
2 fam (uso hiperbólico) tengo unas ganas espantosas de que llegue el fin de semana, I'm dying for the weekend to come!
3 fam (muy feo) awful, hideous: ¡quítate ese espantoso sombrero!, take off that awful hat!
' espantoso' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
berrido
- espantosa
- ridícula
- ridículo
- sueño
- tener
- hacer
English:
diabolic
- diabolical
- dreadful
- frightening
- frightful
- ghastly
- gruesome
- hairy
- hideous
- horrendous
- interminable
- shocking
- stinking
- wretched
- abominable
- atrocious
- boiling
- dire
- excruciating
- horrific
- split
- terrible
- terrific
* * *espantoso, -a adj1. [pavoroso] horrific2. [enorme] terrible;tengo un frío espantoso I'm freezing to death;teníamos un hambre espantosa we were famished o starving3. [feísimo] hideous, frightful;llevaba un vestido espantoso she was wearing a hideous o frightful dress4. [pasmoso] appalling, shocking;el servicio postal era espantoso the postal service was appalling;su capacidad para mentir es espantosa he's an appalling liar* * *adj1 horrific, appallinghace un calor espantoso it’s terribly o incredibly hot* * *espantoso, -sa adj1) : frightening, terrifying2) : frightful, dreadful* * *espantoso adj awful / dreadful -
59 horrendo
adj.horrible, terrible, dreadful, horrifying.* * *► adjetivo1 horrible, horrifying, awful, frightful* * *ADJ1) (=aterrador) [crimen] horrific, ghastly *2) (=horrible) [ropa, zapatos] hideous, ghastly *; [película, libro] dreadful; [frío, calor] terrible, dreadful, awful* * ** * *= harrowing, frightful, horrendous, horrifying, hideous, horrible, grotesquely ugly.Ex. See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.Ex. The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Ex. If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.Ex. The article 'A horrifying problem' examines the controversial issue about whether to remove books about satanism from the library shelves.Ex. The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex. In all three novels, a lovestricken swain believes that he is disporting himself with the handsome object of his affections, when actually he lies abed with the grotesquely ugly maidservant of his mistress.* * ** * *= harrowing, frightful, horrendous, horrifying, hideous, horrible, grotesquely ugly.Ex: See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.
Ex: The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Ex: If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.Ex: The article 'A horrifying problem' examines the controversial issue about whether to remove books about satanism from the library shelves.Ex: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex: Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex: In all three novels, a lovestricken swain believes that he is disporting himself with the handsome object of his affections, when actually he lies abed with the grotesquely ugly maidservant of his mistress.* * *horrendo -da* * *
horrendo◊ -da adjetivo See Also→ horroroso
' horrendo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
horrendo-a
- infierno
English:
eyewitness
- harrowing
- horrendous
- horrific
- ghastly
- hideous
- horrifying
* * ** * *adj horrendous* * *horrendo, -da adj: horrendous, horrible -
60 horrible
adj.1 horrifying, terrifying.2 terrible, awful (muy malo).3 horrible, hideous (muy feo).* * *► adjetivo1 horrible, dreadful, awful* * *adj.* * *ADJ1) (=espantoso) [accidente, crimen, matanza] horrific2) (=feo) [persona, objeto, ropa, cuadro] hideous3) (=malo, perverso) horrible¡qué hombre tan horrible! — what a horrible man!
4) (=insoportable) terriblehizo un calor horrible — it was terribly hot, the heat was terrible
la conferencia fue un rollo horrible — * the lecture was a real drag *
* * *a) <accidente/muerte> horrible, horrificc) < tiempo> terrible, awfuld) ( inaguantable) unbearable* * *= horrid, lousy [lousier -comp., lousiest -sup.], unsightly, revolting, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unpleasant, awful, terrible, crummy [crummier -comp., crummiest -sup.], hideous, shocking, horrible, dreadful, heinous, frightening, yucky [yuckier -comp., yuckiest -sup.], pathetic.Ex. The horrid thing broke out with a screeching laugh, and pointed his brown finger at me.Ex. I want to react, though, to your description of lousy catalogers.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. This was so that the stuffing could be teased out and cleared of lumps, and so that the pelts could be softened by currying and soaking them in urine; the smell is said to have been revolting.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. And, as if by way of indicating that he had thrown down the gauntlet, he added, 'I can be unpleasant. I warn you'.Ex. These articles were written by those who have had first hand experience of the awful consequences of not devoting enough time to testing their security systems.Ex. She had a distant fleeting vision of a workplace in which people acted like free and sensible human beings, instead of like the martyrized and victimized puppets of a terrible system called 'one-upmanship'.Ex. One librarian bluntly wondered about the ethics of sending ' crummy looking books with information that is incorrect or obsolete to the needy (because) everyone should have access to good material'.Ex. The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex. The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.Ex. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex. The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex. There are several different ways to make a stink bomb, all of which involving the use of chemicals which react in a way to create a particularly heinous odor.Ex. No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.Ex. I saw Gina's post the other day where she said she feels 'fat and frumpish and yucky'.Ex. Unfortunately, the quality of the debate on the other side is pathetic.----* horrible, espantoso, de puta pena = awful.* morir una muerte horrible = suffer + a horrible death, die + a horrible death.* tener una muerte horrible = die + a horrible death, suffer + a horrible death.* tener un aspecto horrible = look + shit.* * *a) <accidente/muerte> horrible, horrificc) < tiempo> terrible, awfuld) ( inaguantable) unbearable* * *= horrid, lousy [lousier -comp., lousiest -sup.], unsightly, revolting, nasty [natier -comp., nastiest -sup.], unpleasant, awful, terrible, crummy [crummier -comp., crummiest -sup.], hideous, shocking, horrible, dreadful, heinous, frightening, yucky [yuckier -comp., yuckiest -sup.], pathetic.Ex: The horrid thing broke out with a screeching laugh, and pointed his brown finger at me.
Ex: I want to react, though, to your description of lousy catalogers.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: This was so that the stuffing could be teased out and cleared of lumps, and so that the pelts could be softened by currying and soaking them in urine; the smell is said to have been revolting.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: And, as if by way of indicating that he had thrown down the gauntlet, he added, 'I can be unpleasant. I warn you'.Ex: These articles were written by those who have had first hand experience of the awful consequences of not devoting enough time to testing their security systems.Ex: She had a distant fleeting vision of a workplace in which people acted like free and sensible human beings, instead of like the martyrized and victimized puppets of a terrible system called 'one-upmanship'.Ex: One librarian bluntly wondered about the ethics of sending ' crummy looking books with information that is incorrect or obsolete to the needy (because) everyone should have access to good material'.Ex: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Ex: The author mentions several recent shocking revelations concerning the activities of the Japanese government and its officials.Ex: Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Ex: The same author also wrote the book 'Serials deselection: a dreadful dilemma'.Ex: There are several different ways to make a stink bomb, all of which involving the use of chemicals which react in a way to create a particularly heinous odor.Ex: No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.Ex: I saw Gina's post the other day where she said she feels 'fat and frumpish and yucky'.Ex: Unfortunately, the quality of the debate on the other side is pathetic.* horrible, espantoso, de puta pena = awful.* morir una muerte horrible = suffer + a horrible death, die + a horrible death.* tener una muerte horrible = die + a horrible death, suffer + a horrible death.* tener un aspecto horrible = look + shit.* * *1 (trágico, espantoso) ‹accidente/muerte› horrible, horrific2 (feo) ‹persona› hideous, ugly; ‹camisa/adorno› horrible, hideous3 (malo) ‹tiempo› terrible, awful, dreadful4(inaguantable): ¡qué calor más horrible! it's terribly o unbearably hot!* * *
horrible adjetivo
‹camisa/adorno› horrible, hideous
horrible adjetivo horrible, dreadful, awful
' horrible' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
amanecer
- horrendo-a
- infame
- pestazo
- antipático
- calor
- cargante
- mal
- malo
- odioso
- pereza
- perro
- pinche
- tocar
- tufo
English:
awful
- cat
- dreadful
- hideous
- hole
- horrible
- horrid
- it
- manage
- mind
- nasty
- shocking
- thought
- wretched
- abominable
- crummy
- foul
- ghastly
- revolting
- rotten
- sickly
- vile
* * *horrible adj1. [terrorífico] horrific, terrifying;un accidente horrible a horrific accidentnos hizo un tiempo horrible we had terrible o awful weathertiene un novio horrible she's got a horrible-looking o hideous boyfriend;ese vestido le queda horrible that dress looks horrible o hideous on her¡qué frío más horrible! it's absolutely freezing!;tengo un hambre horrible I'm ravenous o starving* * *adj horrible, dreadful* * *horrible adj: horrible, dreadful♦ horriblemente adv* * *horrible adj1. (en general) awful / terrible2. (accidente) horrific
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