Italian–English dictionary

disorientamento

The state of being bewildered.

disorientante

Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.

disorientare

To cause to lose orientation or direction.

disorientato

Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.

disossare

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

disossato

(of meat or fish) Having had the bones removed before cooking.

disostruire

(transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.

disparato

Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.

dispari

(maths, not comparable) Numerically indivisible by two.

dispendio

(uncountable, countable) The amount expended; expense; outlay.

dispendioso

Of high cost; expensive.

dispensa

A cabinet, closet, or other piece of furniture with shelves intended for storing cookware, dishware, or food; similar cabinets or closets used for storing other items.

disperare

(transitive) To cause to despair.

disperato

Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.

disperazione

(transitive) To cause to despair.

disperdere

(transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.

disperdersi

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

dispersione

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.

disperso

Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.

dispetto

(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

dispettoso

Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm.

dispiacere

Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.

dispiaciuto

(of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.

dispnea

(pathology) Difficult or laboured breathing.

disponibile

Characterised by careful and conscious thought.

disponibilità

(chiefly, uncountable) The quality of being available.

disporre

(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.

dispositivo

Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

disposizione

A particular way in which items are organized.

disposizioni

(often, in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.

disposto

(chiefly, Commonwealth) Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.

dispotismo

Government by a despot or despots: rule by a singular authority, either a single person or a tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.

dispregiativo

Insulting, ridiculing.

disprezzabile

Deserving contempt.

disprezzante

Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous; scathing; withering.

disprezzare

(transitive, archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.

disprezzo

(uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.

disproporzionare

(chemistry) To undergo disproportionation.

disputa

An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree.

disputàbile

(colloquial) Open to doubt, argument or debate.

disritmia

A disturbance to an otherwise normal biological rhythm, especially that of the heart.

disruzione

An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.

dissacrare

(transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.

dissacrazione

An act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred.

dissalare

(transitive) To remove the salt from something, especially from seawater.

dissare

(slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.

dissecare

(transitive) To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.

disseminare

(dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.

disseminarere

(transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.

dissennato

Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; boldly rash; hotheaded.

dissenso

Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord.

dissenteria

(pathology) A disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.

dissentire

(intransitive) To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.

dissenziente

Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from what a religion (or sect) believes to be orthodox, but (usually) not conflicting with that religion's established beliefs and therefore not heretical.

disseppellire

(transitive) to excavate something

dissertazione

A lengthy, formal discourse that analyses or explains some topic; (loosely) a dissertation or treatise.

disservizio

A continuing act of disorder.

dissesto

(uncountable) The quality of being unstable.

dissetare

(transitive) To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.

dissezione

The act of dissecting.

dissidente

A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.

dissidio

A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.

dissimmetria

Absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry.

dissimulare

To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.

dissimulazione

The practice of keeping secrets.

dissipare

(transitive) To drive away, disperse.

dissiparsi

(intransitive, of a, _, spell of settled, _, weather) To end.

dissipazione

(physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.

dissodare

(intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.

dissolta

that has been disintegrated in a solvent

dissoluto

Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.

dissolvenza

(cinematography) a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next

dissolvere

(physical chemistry) (transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.

dissolversi

(physical chemistry) (transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.

dissonante

(also, figurative) Of sounds: harsh, jarring; specifically (music) , of musical notes or tunes: not in harmony; dissonant, inharmonious.

dissonanza

(mechanics) The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

dissonanza cognitiva

(psychology) A conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs.

dissotterrare

(transitive) to excavate something

dissuadere

(transitive) To convince not to try or do.

dissuasivo

Serving to deter, preventing something from happening.

distaccamento

The process or state of being seconded, the temporary transfer of a person from their normal duty to another assignment.

distaccare

(transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.

distaccarsi

(intransitive) To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.

distaccato

Reserved and remote; either physically or emotionally distant; standoffish.

distacco

(uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.

distale

(anatomy, geology) Remote from the point of attachment or origin.

distante

Far off (physically, logically or mentally).

distantemente

In a wide manner; across a wide area.

distanza

(military) The amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; also, the amount of space between such ranks.

distanziare

To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.

distesa

An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.

distillare

(transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation. [from 15th c.]

distillatore

A person who distills, especially alcoholic spirits or hard liquor by a process of distillation; a person who owns, works in or operates a distillery.

distillatrice

A person who distills, especially alcoholic spirits or hard liquor by a process of distillation; a person who owns, works in or operates a distillery.

distilleria

A place where distillation takes place, especially the distillation of alcoholic spirits.

distinguere

To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.

distinguersi

(transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.

distinguibile

Able, or easily able to be distinguished.

distintamente

In a distinct manner.

distintivo

Something characteristic; a mark; a token.

distinto

Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.

distinzione

The ability to distinguish between things.

distogliere

(transitive) To turn aside or away.

distopico

Of or pertaining to a dystopia.

distorcere

(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

distorsione

(statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.

distorto

(figurative) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course

distrarre

(transitive) To divert the attention of.

distrarsi

(transitive) To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)

distratto

(idiomatic) Synonym of lost in thought; distracted or daydreaming.

distretto

An administrative division of an area.

distribuire

(ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.

distributore

One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.

distribuzione

The act of conveying something.

districare

(transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.

distruggere

(UK, originally, Irish, slang) To ruin or destroy.

distruttivo

Causing destruction; damaging.

distrutto

Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.

distruttore

That which destroys something.

distruttrice

That which destroys something.

distruzione

Widespread devastation and destruction.

disturbare

(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

disturbarsi

(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.

disturbo

Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.

disturbo da accumulo

(psychology) An anxiety disorder characterized by a compulsive need to accumulate goods and feelings of anxiety or discomfort about discarding such goods.

disubbidiente

Not obedient.

disubbidienza

Refusal to obey.

disubbidire

(transitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey an order of (somebody).

disuguaglianza

(mathematics) A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or \leq or > or \geq or \ne, as appropriate.

disumano

(informal) Of an extremely large size.

disunitamente

In a separate manner; not together; apart.

disuso

(uncountable) The state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence; (countable) an instance of this.

dita

(anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.

ditale

(archaic) A cottage or small homestead.

ditalino

(music, uncountable) The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.

dito

(anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.

dito d'onore

(with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.

dito del piede

The equivalent part in an animal.

dito della zampa

The equivalent part in an animal.

dito grosso

The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.

dito indice

(human, _, anatomy) The index finger: the first finger next to the thumb.

dito medio

The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger.

dittatore

A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.

dittatrice

A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.

dittatura

A type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique.

diurnale

(Catholicism) A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins.

diurno

(Catholicism) A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins.

diva

Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress. [from the 19th c.]

divagare

(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

divanetto

A couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night.