desalmado
Spanish
Etymology
From des- (“without”) + alma (“soul”) + -ado (adjective suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desalˈmado/ [d̪e.salˈma.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: de‧sal‧ma‧do
Adjective
desalmado (feminine desalmada, masculine plural desalmados, feminine plural desalmadas)
- heartless, soulless
- Synonym: desangelado
- ruthless
- Synonym: despiadado
- cruel
- Synonym: cruel
Derived terms
Further reading
- “desalmado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024