tarado
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
tarado (feminine tarada, masculine plural tarados, feminine plural taradas)
Participle edit
tarado (feminine tarada, masculine plural tarados, feminine plural taradas)
- past participle of tarar
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From tarar.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
tarado (feminine tarada, masculine plural tarados, feminine plural taradas)
- stupid, dumb
- faulty, deficient
- Synonyms: dañado, defectuoso, deficiente, fallado, imperfecto, malogrado
Noun edit
tarado m (plural tarados, feminine tarada, feminine plural taradas)
- (colloquial) bozo, idiot, moron
Usage notes edit
- Although in some contexts zonzo, bobo, tonto, menso, culero, tarado, idiota, imbécil, estúpido and pendejo may be synonyms, in most contexts these adjectives each have a different degree of severity, with zonzo having the mildest connotation, increasing in intensity in this rough order, to estúpido and pendejo, which have the most offensive sense.
Related terms edit
Participle edit
tarado (feminine tarada, masculine plural tarados, feminine plural taradas)
- past participle of tarar
Further reading edit
- “tarado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014