Spanish–English dictionary

desconsiderado

(figurative) Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.

desconsolado

Not consolable; unable to be consoled or comforted, usually due to grief, disappointment, or other distress.

descontaminación

The process of removing contamination, particularly the cleaning off of dangerous materials.

descontento

(countable) A discontented person; a malcontent.

descontinuación

The act of stopping producing or supplying a product.

descontinuar

(transitive, chiefly, computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.

descontrolado

Not controlled; not under control.

desconveniencia

Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.

desconveniente

not convenient

desconvenir

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

descorazonado

(of a, person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.

descorazonamiento

The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.

descorazonar

To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

descorchador

An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.

descordar

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

descortés

impolite; lacking consideration for others

descortesía

An act of neglect; failure of courtesy.

descortezar

To strip the bark from; to peel.

descosido

Not making logical sense; not logically connected or consistent.

descoyuntamiento

The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

descrecer

(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.

descreer

To not believe; to exercise disbelief.

descremado

(of milk) Having lowered fat content.

descrestar

(transitive) To trick or mislead.

describir

To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.

descriminalizar

(transitive) To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.

descripción

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]

descripción general

A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.

descriptar

(transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.

descriptivismo

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

descriptivo

Of, relating to, or providing a description.

descriptorio

Of, relating to, or providing a description.

descuadre

The property of not being in balance.

descuajar

(transitive) To pull up by the roots.

descuajaringante

Exceptionally funny; hilarious.

descuartizador

One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.

descuartizar

(transitive) To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.

descubierto

Open and not concealed or secret.

descubridor

One who discovers: a person who has discovered something.

descubrimiento

(legal, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.

descubrir

(transitive, sometimes, figurative) To uncover; to reveal.

descuento

A reduction in price.

descuerado

Destitute of hair.

descuidadamente

Giving the appearance of carelessness; relaxedly.

descuidado

Casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant.

descuidar

(transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.

descuidero

A person who shoplifts, one who steals from shops.

descuido

The characteristic or state of being easily distracted or preoccupied. [First attested in the late 19th century.]

desde

(idiomatic) At or by a specified time, with the implication that the said condition will be true from that time onward.

desde ahí

(formal) From there, from that place or from that time.

desde donde

(archaic, formal, or, literary) From where; from which place or source.

desde entonces

From a specified time in the past.

desde que

From the time that.

desdecir

(transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.

desdecirse

(intransitive) To withdraw from something one has agreed to do.

Desdémona

(astronomy) An inner moon of the planet Uranus.

desdén

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

desdeñable

Deserving contempt.

desdeñar

To regard with contempt or scorn.

desdeño

(uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.

desdeñoso

(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; exhibiting an insolent or disdainful attitude.

desdentado

Having no teeth.

desdibujado

Out of focus; partially obscured; smudged.

desdibujar

To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.

desdicha

Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

desdichado

Unhappy or unfortunate.

desdorar

(transitive) To compromise, damage, soil, or sully.

desdoro

An attack on somebody's reputation or good name, often in the phrase to cast aspersions upon…. [from late 16th c.]

deseable

Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.

deseado

Wished for; desired; sought.

desear

To prefer; to wish; to desire.

desecar

(transitive) To remove moisture from; to dry; (sometimes) to dry to an extreme degree. [from late 16th c.]

desechable

That is designed to be discarded rather than reused, refilled or repaired.

desechar

(transitive) To discard.

desecho

(countable) A disposing of or getting rid of something.

desecho(s)

Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.

desechos

Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

desecrar

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

deseleccionar

(transitive) To not select; to rule out of selection.

desellar

(transitive) To break the seal of (something) in order to open it.

desembalaje

The removal of something from its box; an unpacking.

desembalar

(transitive) To remove from a box.

desembarazado

(of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.

desembarcar

(transitive) To unload.

desembarco

A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.

desembocadura

The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.

desembocar

(transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.

desembolso

(uncountable, countable) Act of expending or paying out.

desembrujar

(transitive) To free from a curse or enchantment.

desemejante

Not similar; unalike; different.

desemejanza

A lack of similarity or a lack of likeness in appearance to something else.

desempacar

(transitive) To remove from a box.

desempaque

The removal of something from its box; an unpacking.

desempaquetado

The removal of something from its box; an unpacking.

desempaquetar

(transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.

desemparejado

(not comparable) Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.

desempate

Something that is used to pick a winner from a tied situation.

desempeñante

One who performs for, or entertains, an audience.

desempeñar

(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.

desempeñarse

(intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.

desempeño

The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.

desempleado

Having no job despite being able and willing to work.

desempleo

The state of having no job; joblessness.

desempolvar

(idiomatic) To review; to improve an existing but rusty or underdeveloped skill.

deseñar

(ambitransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.

desencadenado

Not bound by chains or shackles.

desencadenante

An event that initiates others, or incites a response.

desencadenar

(transitive, idiomatic) To start (something); to set off traps; especially used for unstable situations that may magnify if disturbed.

desencajar

To put something out of its usual place.

desencanto

(countable) An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.

desencarcelar

To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

desenchufar

(transitive) To disconnect from a supply, especially an electrical socket.

desenconar

(transitive) To ease or relieve pain or suffering.

desencorvar

(transitive) To cause to become straight.

desencriptar

(transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.

desencuentro

(uncountable) A condition of not agreeing or concurring.

desenfadado

(of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.

desenfocado

(idiomatic) Inconsistent; lacking a clear pattern; with a large amount of variation.

desenfocar

To obscure by blurring; to smear.

desenfrenado

Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470]

desenfrenamiento

A state of wild activity or panic.

desenfreno

A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.] (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)

desenfundar

(transitive) To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.

desengañar

(transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.

desengancharse

(transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.

desengaño

Freeing from false belief or illusions.

desenlace

(authorship, often, metaphorically) The conclusion or resolution of a plot; unravelling.

desenmarañar

Of threads: to become separated from something knitted or woven, such as clothing or fabric; also, of something knitted or woven: to separate into threads; to come apart.

desenmascarar

(transitive) To remove a mask from someone.

desenmascararse

(intransitive) To remove one's mask.

deseño

Intention or plot.

desenraizar

To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.

desenredar

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

desenrollar

(intransitive, colloquial) To relax; to chill out; to rest and become relieved of stress

desenroscar

(transitive) To loosen a screw or thing by turning it.

desensamblaje

The process of disassembling.

desensamblar

To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.

desentendido

Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.

desenterrar

To dig up.

desentonar

(intransitive) To fail to conform or correspond with.

desentono

A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.

desentrañado

(not comparable) Eviscerated.

desentrañar

(transitive) To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.

desenvainar

(transitive) To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.

desenvoltura

The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes

desenvolver

(transitive) To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.

desenvolvimiento

(chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.

desenvuelto

(of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.

deseo

The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

deseo ilusorio

(idiomatic, psychology) The formation of beliefs based on an outcome that aligns with one's desires or hopes, while disregarding evidence, rationality, or reality.