envilecedor
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /embileθeˈdoɾ/ [ẽm.bi.le.θeˈð̞oɾ] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /embileseˈdoɾ/ [ẽm.bi.le.seˈð̞oɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: en‧vi‧le‧ce‧dor
Adjective
envilecedor (feminine envilecedora, masculine plural envilecedores, feminine plural envilecedoras)
- debasing; devaluing
- 2017 April 1, “La extrañeza es un mal síntoma”, in El Nacional[1]:
- Muy sencillo: de que no acabamos de entender la naturaleza despótica, depredadora y envilecedora del poder establecido en Venezuela.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “envilecedor”, 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