Spanish–English dictionary

no obstante

Although, despite (it) being.

no pagar

(intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.

no paladeable

Unpleasant to the taste.

no parar de moverse

(intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.

no pasa nada

It is not important; do not worry (used to reassure or comfort the person to whom it is said).

no placentero

Not pleasant.

no po

(informal, commonly, emphatic) No.

no poner atención

At fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations.

no preocuparse

It does not bother me; I am not concerned.

no procede

not applicable

no prosternado

Not bowed; erect or upright.

no quedarse quieto

(intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.

no realístico

Not realistic.

no relacionado

Not connected or associated.

no remunerado

Of work: done without agreed payment, usually voluntarily.

no respectivo

Heedless, regardless.

no ser de recibo

Unsatisfactory; not acceptable.

no sorprender

(intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information

no tener en cuenta

To pretend not to have noticed (something, especially a mistake or flaw); to pass over (something) without censure or punishment.

no tener esperanza

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

no tener esperanzas

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

no tener mucho tacto

having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings

no tener precio

(by, extension) So precious as not to be obtainable or sold at any price. [from 1590s]

no valorar

(transitive, idiomatic, especially of a person) To give little attention to or to underestimate the value of; to fail to appreciate, especially something one has grown heavily accustomed to; not to value or care for appropriately, out of the assumption that the person or thing not valued cannot be lost.

no vaya a ser que

For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case.

no venirle con

(transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.

noble

Of noble birth.

noblemente

In a noble manner.

nocebo

(pharmacology, also, _, attributive) A substance which a patient experiences as harmful due to a previous negative perception, but which is in fact pharmacologically (medicinally) inactive. [from 1961]

nocente

Responsible for a dishonest act.

noche

(legal, countable) A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.

Noche de Brujas

The eve of All Hallows' Day; October 31st; celebrated (mostly in English-speaking countries) by children going door-to-door in costume and soliciting candy with menaces.

nochero

(US) A small table or cabinet, often with one or more drawers or shelves, placed beside the head of a bed.

nocible

Harmful; injurious.

nocilla

A sweet spread made from hazelnuts, sugar, vegetable oils, cocoa solids and skimmed milk, generically called chocolate spread.

noción a posteriori

Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.

noción preconcebida

An opinion formed before obtaining adequate evidence, especially as the result of bias or prejudice.

nocional

Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

nociones

A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.

nocividad

The characteristic of being harmful.

nocivo

Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

noctámbulo

(idiomatic) One who goes to bed late, or stays up late at night or in the early hours of the morning.

nocturno

Performing, occurring, or taking place every night.

nodo

(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.

nódulo

(medicine, dermatology) A rounded mass or irregular shape; a small knot or lump.

noético

Of or pertaining to the mind or intellect.

nogal

Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

nogal americano

(countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.

noica

A strong feeling of anxiety.

Nokia

A town and municipality of Pirkanmaa, Finland, near Tampere.

noma

The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.

nómada

(anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.

nómade

(figuratively) Of or related to any habitually wandering person or animal.

nomádico

(figuratively) Of or related to any habitually wandering person or animal.

nombradamente

Specifically; that is to say.

nombradía

The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of, especially for something positive.

nombramiento

The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust

nombrar

(transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.

nombrar a dedo

(transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.

nombre

To assign (someone) a first name.

nombre común

(taxonomy) The name by which an organism or group of organisms is known to the general public.

nombre de usuario

(computing) A name or string of characters used as a person's identification on an individual computer system.

nombre substantivo

(grammar, narrowly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

nombre sustantivo

(grammar, narrowly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

nomenclátor

(geography) A dictionary or index of geographical locations.

nomenclatura

A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.

nómina

A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. [from 1600]

nominación

An act or instance of nominating.

nominada

A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.

nominado

A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.

nominar

To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.

nompareille

(uncountable, typography, chiefly, historical) A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.

non

Not, the negation of the root word (a quality).

non asumiente

Modest and having no pretensions or ostentation.

non compendiado

(of a book or document) Not abridged, shortened, expurgated or condensed; complete.

non develado

Not disclosed.

non educado

Not educated.

non estresado

not subject to stress

non experimentado

Not experienced; lacking knowledge because lacking experience.

non fiable

Not reliable.

non fundamentado

Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.

non heterosexual

(broadly) Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual or cisgender norms, assumptions etc. [from 20th c.]

non hondo

Extending not far downward.

non intencional

Not intended or deliberate; inadvertent; unwitting.

non profundo

Extending not far downward.

non relenteciente

Unrelenting or unyielding in severity.

non revelado

Not disclosed.

non sécuitur

(logic) Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.

non sequitur

(logic) Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.

non tratado

Not treated.

ñoño

Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.

noob

(Internet slang, chiefly, derogatory) A newb or newbie; refers to the idea that someone is new to a game, concept, or idea; implying a lack of experience. Also, in some areas the word noob can mean someone is obsessed with things.

noodle

(usually, in the plural) A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.

nop

(informal, commonly, emphatic) No.

nopal

Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.

nopor

(uncountable) Pornography.

ñoqui

(chiefly, US) Specifically, a food composed of a dough wrapper around a filling.

ñoquis

Italian pasta-like dumpling(s) made of potato or semolina.

nordeste

The intercardinal compass point halfway between north and east; specifically at a bearing of 45°.

nórdico

Of or relating to cross-country skiing.

noreste

The intercardinal compass point halfway between north and east; specifically at a bearing of 45°.

Norma

(constellation) An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a carpenter's square. It lies south of the constellations Scorpius and Centaurus.

normal

Usual, healthy; not sick or ill or unlike oneself.

normalidad

(US) The state of being normal; the fact of being normal; normality.

normalización

Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.

normalmente

(idiomatic) In general; most often.

normanda

A member of the mixed Scandinavian and Frankish peoples who, in the 11th century, were a major military power in Western Europe and who conquered the English in 1066.

normando

A member of the mixed Scandinavian and Frankish peoples who, in the 11th century, were a major military power in Western Europe and who conquered the English in 1066.

normar

(analysis) To endow (a vector space, etc.) with a norm.

normativismo

(linguistics) The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms, of linguistic usage.

normativo

Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.

noroeste

The intercardinal compass point halfway between west and north; specifically at a bearing of 315°.

norteamericano

Of, from, or pertaining to the United States of America, its people, or its culture.

norteña

A native or inhabitant of the north of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the northern United States, the north of Norway, etc.

norteño

Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.

Nortumbria

(historical) An Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the Northeast of England; in full, Kingdom of Northumbria.

Noruega

A country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Official name: Kingdom of Norway.

noruego

A native of Norway.

nos

(reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.

nos vemos

(chiefly, Commonwealth, informal) goodbye, especially as a sign-off in an email or after writing a comment.

nosocomial

(obsolete) Hospitable.

nosocomio

A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.

nosotras

We, used in the same circumstances where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula:

nosotros

(reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.

nosotros mismos

(emphatic) Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.

nostalgia

The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.

nostálgica

A person who displays nostalgia for something.

nostálgico

Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.

nota

A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

notable

Worthy of note; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished. [from 14th c.]

notablemente

In a conspicuous manner; noticeably.

notación

(mostly, uncountable) The act of observing; perception.

notar

(transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.

notaria

Someone commissioned to perform certain duties.

notario

Someone commissioned to perform certain duties.

notebook

(computing) Ellipsis of notebook computer (“laptop computer”).

noticia

New information of interest.

noticiable

Interesting enough to be reported as a news

noticiar

(transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.

noticiario

A time-sensitive news item or short news report.

noticias

(uncountable) Newspaper or news stories.

noticiero

A time-sensitive news item or short news report.

notición

inside information, the story or truth.

noticioso

Interesting enough to be reported as a news

notificación

(law) A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.

notificar

(transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.

notoriedad

An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.

notorio

Obvious or easy to notice.

noúmeno

(from Kantian, _, philosophy, _, on) A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.

nova

(astronomy) Any sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star.