tupido
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Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)
- thick, dense
- 1905, La chicharra y la rana:
- Entre las tupidas hojas de un árbol la chicharra chirriaba.
- Among the dense leaves of a tree, the cicada was chirping.
- 1918, “Raza de combate malaya”, in La Hacienda:
- Su plumaje es muy tupido y de color rojo o castaño y negro
- Its plumage is very dense and red or brown and black
- 2015 September 24, “Iguala, la ciudad de los desaparecidos”, in El País[1]:
- Comenzaron recorriendo los tupidos cerros cercanos para buscar cuerpos.
- They began trawling the dense nearby hills to get some bodies.
- 2016 December 20, “Es hora de constituir a Venezuela”, in El Nacional[2]:
- el tupido bosque de leyes
- the thick forest of laws
- dim, clumsy
Usage notes[edit]
- For the sense “thick, dense”, it most commonly refers to hair (bigote tupido, pelo tupido, vello tupido), plants (bosque tupido), or networks (red tupida)
Derived terms[edit]
Participle[edit]
tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)
- past participle of tupir
Further reading[edit]
- “tupido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014