agravante
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: a‧gra‧van‧te
Adjective edit
agravante m or f (plural agravantes)
Derived terms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From agravar + -ante. The feminine gender variant of the noun comes from a clipping of circunstancia agravante.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
agravante m or f (masculine and feminine plural agravantes)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
agravante m or f same meaning (plural agravantes)
- (law) aggravation (extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity)
- asesinato con agravantes ― aggravated murder
- extra negative circumstance; something that makes matters worse
Further reading edit
- “agravante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014