alucinante

Latin

Participle

ālūcinante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of ālūcināns

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ālūcinārebor.

Portuguese alucinar

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -antem

Old Galician-Portuguese -ante

Portuguese -ante

Portuguese alucinante

From alucinar + -ante.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.lu.siˈnɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.lu.siˈnɐ̃.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: a‧lu‧ci‧nan‧te

Adjective

alucinante m or f (plural alucinantes)

1. hallucinatory, hallucinating
2. amazing, awesome, brilliant

Further reading

• “alucinante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “alucinante”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “alucinante”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “alucinante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ālūcinārebor.

Spanish alucinar

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -antem

Spanish -ante

Spanish alucinante

From alucinar + -ante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aluθiˈnante/ [a.lu.θiˈnãn̪.t̪e] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /alusiˈnante/ [a.lu.siˈnãn̪.t̪e] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: a‧lu‧ci‧nan‧te

Adjective

alucinante m or f (masculine and feminine plural alucinantes)

1. hallucinatory, hallucinating
2. amazing, awesome, brilliant
3. (figuratively, colloquial) mind-bending, mind-boggling, mind-blowing

Further reading

• “alucinante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025