mal-educado

See also: maleducado

Portuguese

Etymology

From mal- +‎ educado.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmaw.e.duˈka.du/ [ˌmaʊ̯.e.duˈka.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmaw.e.duˈka.du/ [ˌmaʊ̯.e.duˈka.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmaw.e.duˈka.do/ [ˌmaʊ̯.e.duˈka.do]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmal.i.duˈka.du/ [ˌmaɫ.i.ðuˈka.ðu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmal.i.duˈka.du/ [ˌmaɫ.i.ðuˈka.ðu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌma.li.i.duˈka.du/ [ˌma.li.i.ðuˈka.ðu]

• Hyphenation: mal‧-e‧du‧ca‧do

Adjective

mal-educado (feminine mal-educada, masculine plural mal-educados, feminine plural mal-educadas)

1. ill-mannered; impolite (having bad manners)

   Synonyms: rude, malcriado, grosseiro

Further reading

• “mal-educado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mal-educado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026