decepcionante
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: de‧cep‧ci‧o‧nan‧te
Adjective edit
decepcionante m or f (plural decepcionantes) (Brazilian spelling, superseded in European Portuguese)
- disappointing (that disappoints)
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:decepcionante.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From decepcionar + -ante.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /deθebθjoˈnante/ [d̪e.θeβ̞.θjoˈnãn̪.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /desebsjoˈnante/ [d̪e.seβ̞.sjoˈnãn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: de‧cep‧cio‧nan‧te
Adjective edit
decepcionante m or f (masculine and feminine plural decepcionantes)
- disappointing, underwhelming
- Synonym: desilusionante
- anticlimactic
- Synonym: anticlimático
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “decepcionante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014