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PORTUGUESE · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

bravo.

angry; furious, annoyed

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈbɾa.vu/Brazil/ˈbɾa.vu/Portugal/ˈbɾa.bu/Northern, Portugal[ˈbɾa.βu]Northern, Portugal
  1. angry; furious, annoyed

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    Fico bravo quando você entra sem bater.
  2. brave; valiant, courageous

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  3. coarse; uneducated, uncivilized

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  4. prone to irritation, easily angered, bad-tempered, choleric

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  5. rigorous, authoritarian

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  6. difficult, unmanageable (of a person or situation)

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  7. undomesticated (of an animal)

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  8. spontaneous, weed (of a plant or vegetable)

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  9. uncultivated (of the land)

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  10. stormy (of the sea)

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  11. a term akin to English dope, hard; meaning cool or good, usually with an aggressive connotation

    Brazil · comparable · slang
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bravo, possibly from Vulgar Latin *bravus or *brabus, from a fusion of Latin prāvus and barbarus.

noun/ˈbɾa.vu/Brazil/ˈbɾa.vu/Portugal/ˈbɾa.bu/Northern, Portugal[ˈbɾa.βu]Northern, Portugal
  1. a certain part of an oxcart

    Brazil · masculine
  2. a neophyte to rubber tapping, a novice seringueiro

    North-Brazil · masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bravo, possibly from Vulgar Latin *bravus or *brabus, from a fusion of Latin prāvus and barbarus.

intj/ˈbɾa.vu/Brazil/ˈbɾa.vu/Portugal/ˈbɾa.bu/Northern, Portugal[ˈbɾa.βu]Northern, Portugal
  1. bravo! well done!

    Bravo! Você acertou!
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Italian bravo.

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