Spanish–English dictionary

adelgazarse

(intransitive) To become less heavy or obese.

ademán

(obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

ademán en corte

(UK, television, informal) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding at the person being interviewed (or sometimes the interviewee nodding at the interviewer), often used to cover an editing gap in an interview.

ademanes

A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

además

By way of addition; in addition to; also.

además de

Too proud to stoop to; averse to; disinclined towards;

Adén

A port city, the largest city in Yemen; the former capital of South Yemen.

adenda

Something to be added; especially text added as an appendix or supplement to a document.

adentramiento

A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.

adentrarse

(transitive) To breach (a security system).

adentrarse en

(transitive) To make a breach in.

adentreño

A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.

adentrino

A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.

adentro

Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.

adentro de

Surrounded by; among; amidst.

aderezar

(transitive) To add spice or spices to; season.

aderezo

(cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.

adesteño

Moving or heading towards the east.

adeudante

(usually with 'to') Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged for a bounden duty.

adeudar

(ditransitive) To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.

adeudo

(finance) Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction.

adherencia

(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.

adherente

Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.

adherible

Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.

adherir

(intransitive, figurative) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.

adherirse

(intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.

adhesión

A close physical union of two objects.

adhesivo

Adhesive, sticking to something.

adiar

(transitive) To plan (an activity or event) for a specific date or time.

adicción

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.

adición

(uncountable, arithmetic) The arithmetic operation of adding.

adicional

Supplemental or added to something.

adicionalmente

By way of addition; in addition to; also.

adicionar

(intransitive, mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.

adicta

(slang, by extension) An enthusiast of something.

adictivo

Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.

adicto

A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

adicto al trabajo

In the nature or manner of a workaholic.

adiestrado

Selectively bred to live with or around humans. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet)

adiestramiento

(uncountable) The schooling of a horse.

adiestrar

(transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).

adinerado

(by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.

adiós

A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.

adiós Madrid, que te quedes sin gente

Used to indicate that a departure or loss is welcome.

adiós y buen viaje

Used to indicate that a departure or loss is welcome.

adiós y hasta nunca

Used to indicate that a departure or loss is welcome.

adiposis

(pathology) The state of being obese.

adir

(transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

Áditi

(Hinduism) The daughter of Daksha, wife of Kashyapa, and mother of the gods.

aditicio

More, additional.

aditivo

A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.

adivina

Able to foresee the future.

adivinación

(uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.

adivinanza

A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.

adivinar

(transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

adivino

Able to foresee the future.

adjetivar

(transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

adjetivo

(grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.

adjudicación

The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

adjudicar

(transitive) To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.

adjudicarse

To demand ownership or right to use for land.

adjudicatario

One who receives.

adjuntar

(transitive) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex

adjunto

Connected in a subordinate function.

administración

(countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.

administrador

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

administradora

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

administrar

(transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.

administrativo

Of or relating to administering or administration.

admirable

Deserving of the highest esteem or admiration; estimable.

admirablemente

To an admirable degree.

admiración

A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful

admirador

One who admires.

admirador admiradora

An ardent enthusiast or admirer.

admiradora

One who admires.

admirar

(transitive) To regard with wonder and delight.

admirativo

Feeling or showing admiration.

admisible

Capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable.

admisión

(legal) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.

admitancia

(physics) The reciprocal of impedance

admitidamente

(conjunctive) Signals a concession followed by a counterpoint usually headed by but.

admitido

Generally accepted, recognized or admitted.

admitir

(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.

admixtión

An instance of admixing, a mixing in of something.

admonición

A rebuke by an authority that one has erred and should not persist in their actions; a reprimand.

ADN

(biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid (“a nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction”).

ado

(obsolete) formed, up until Early Modern English (later seldom used but archaically, in poetry, or in religious writings), regular past participles of verbs ending in -ate, alternatively used alongside -ated from as early as Middle English

adobar

(ergative) To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.

adoctrinamiento

The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated.

adoctrinar

To teach (a person) with a biased, one-sided or uncritical ideology; to brainwash.

adolecer

(intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.

adolecerse de

To show mercy, to have mercy on.

adolescencia

The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity.

adolescente

Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.

adolescentes

A person between thirteen and nineteen years old.

Adolfo

A en given name.

adolorado

That aches; continuously painful; that causes pain.

adolorar

(transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.

adolorido

That aches; continuously painful; that causes pain.

adónde

In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).

adondequiera

In, at or to any place (that); anywhere.

adonis

A beautiful man.

adoptado

Receiving such care.

adoptar

To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

adoptivo

Related through adoption.

adoquín

(countable) A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.

adoquinar

(British) To cover something with paving slabs.

adorable

Befitting of being adored; cute or loveable.

adoración

worship, glorification, adoration.

adorador

Someone who adores.

adorar

To have a deep appreciation of; to hold dear.

adormecer

(transitive) To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm

adormecido

Quite sleepy or tired.

adormidera

Papaver somniferum, the species of plant from which opium and poppy seeds are extracted.

adormilar

(intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.

adornar

To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, embroider, or even misrepresent or lie.

adorno

A decoration; that which adorns.

adosado

Connected; joined.

adosar

(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

adquirido

(medicine) Developed after birth; not congenital.

adquirir

(intransitive, legal) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

adquisición

(countable) The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.

adquisitivo

Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring, greedy.

adrede

(idiomatic) By design, as opposed to by accident; intentionally; deliberately. [from 16th c.]

adrenal

Pertaining to the adrenal glands (suprarenal glands), their secretions, or the function derived therefrom.

adrenalina

(hormone) Epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.

adrián

(pathology) A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.

Adriano

(historical) The Roman emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus.

adriático

Of or pertaining to the Adriatic Sea.

adrolla

An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.

adscribir

(transitive) To attribute (a cause or characteristic) to someone or something.

aduana

An official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit

aductor

(anatomy) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body—opposed to abductor.

adueñarse

(transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

adulación

(countable) An instance of excessive praise.

adulador

One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.

aduladora

One who lavishes excessive praises or flattery; one who adulates.

adular

To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.

adulón

(figurative) One who sucks up; a bootlicker, ass-kisser, sycophant.

adulta

An animal that is full-grown.

adúltera

(broadly) One who commits adultery.

adulteración

The process of adulterating.

adulterado

Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.

adulterante

That which adulterates, or reduces the purity of something.

adulterar

(transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).

adulterio

(narrowly) Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry

adúltero

(broadly) One who commits adultery.

adultez

The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.

adulto

Fully grown.

adulto mayor

older, greater than another in age or seniority.