malvestido
Portuguese
Etymology
From mal (“badly”) + vestido (“dressed”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /maw.vesˈt͡ʃi.du/ [maʊ̯.vesˈt͡ʃi.du]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /maw.veʃˈt͡ʃi.du/ [maʊ̯.veʃˈt͡ʃi.du]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /maw.vesˈt͡ʃi.do/ [maʊ̯.vesˈt͡ʃi.do]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mal.vɨʃˈti.du/ [maɫ.vɨʃˈti.ðu]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /mal.bɨʃˈti.du/ [maɫ.βɨʃˈti.ðu]
- Hyphenation: mal‧ves‧ti‧do
Adjective
malvestido (feminine malvestida, masculine plural malvestidos, feminine plural malvestidas)
- poorly dressed
- Antonym: bem-vestido
Related terms
Further reading
- “malvestido”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025