calejado

Portuguese

Alternative forms

callejado (pre-reform spelling)

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.leˈʒa.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.leˈʒa.do/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.lɨˈʒa.du/ [kɐ.lɨˈʒa.ðu]

Hyphenation: ca‧le‧ja‧do

Adjective

calejado (feminine calejada, masculine plural calejados, feminine plural calejadas, comparable)

callous (having calli)
Synonym: caloso
(figurative) jaded; hardened (cynically insensitive; made callous by experience)
Synonym: cínico
- 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “O soldado amarello [The yellow soldier]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 160:
  Era um bicho resistente, callejado.
  He was a tough fellow, callous.

Participle

calejado (feminine calejada, masculine plural calejados, feminine plural calejadas)

past participle of calejar