Vocabulario Avanzado en Inglés: Definiciones de Adjetivos y Términos Esenciales

Glosario Esencial de Vocabulario en Inglés

Explora esta completa recopilación de términos, adjetivos y conceptos en inglés con sus respectivas definiciones para enriquecer tu vocabulario y mejorar tu nivel de comprensión y expresión en el idioma.

A

• Aghast: Suddenly filled with strong feelings of shock and worry.

B

• Backhanded: Ambiguous.
• Barren: Unable to produce plants or fruit / Not productive / (Literary) Unable to have babies.
• Brassy: Laughing too loud.
• Burlesque: Too much of all.

C

• Commonplace: Happening often - not considered special.
• Conscious: To notice that a particular thing or person exists or is present.
• Contentious: Causing or likely to cause disagreement.
• Continuous: Something that does not stop.

D

• Defeatist: Having no hope and expecting to fail (Negativo).
• Differentiated: Two things when their differences or non-common things are found.
• Disagreeable: (Desagradable) Not suitable, bad, something that does not suit anyone.
• Dissident: Someone who publicly disagrees with and criticizes their government.
• Doggie: Typical Englishman.
• Drowsy: Being in a state between sleeping and being awake.

F

• Feeble: Weak and without energy, strength, or power.
• Flabby: Soft and fat.
• Forthcoming: About to happen.
• Foul: Extremely unpleasant / Describes speech or other language that is offensive, rude, or shocking.
• Frivolous: Behaving in a silly and thoughtless way when you should be serious / Activity which is silly or not important rather than serious.

G

• Georgian: Perteneciente o relativo a la época de los reyes Jorge en el Reino Unido.
• Gerrymandered: When someone in authority changes the borders of an area to increase the number of votes for a particular party or person.
• Ghastly: Unpleasant, shocking / (Informal) Extremely bad.
• Gloomy: Unhappy and without hope.
• Gruff: Low and unfriendly voice / Unfriendly behaviour.

H

• Hedonistic: Living and behaving in ways that mean you get as much pleasure out of life as possible, according to the belief that the most important thing in life is to enjoy yourself.
• Hereditary: Conferred by, passed from parents to sons.
• Homely: Plain or ordinary, but pleasant.
• Hollow: Having a hole or empty space inside.
• Hooded: Having a hood (Hood = capucha).

I

• Immature: Non-mature, usually adolescent, teenager... that isn't grown up yet.
• Ingenious: Original and inventive.
• Inveterate: Someone who does something a lot and can't stop doing it.
• Irreconciliable: Impossible to get an agreement.

K

• Knobby: Having lumps (= raised areas) on the surface.

L

• Law-abiding: Someone that obeys the law.
• Lowbrow: (Entertainment) Not complicated to be understood.

M

• Meticulous: Very careful and with great attention to every detail.
• Middlebrow: Music, film, art... good quality, interesting, and can be understood easily.
• Moneyed: Wealthy, rich.

N

• Non-literary: Not connected with literature.

O

• Obsolete: Out of date, unfashionable.
• Outright: Completely or immediately.

P

• Prehensile: (Of parts of the body) Able to hold on to things, especially by curling around them.
• Premonitory: Premonitorio, que advierte o anuncia algo con anticipación.
• Preposterous: Very silly or stupid.
• Prig: (Person) Obesys the rules and considers himself morally better than others.
• Priggish: Like a prig.
• Prickly: Covered with prickles / Unfriendly and slightly rude.
• Prolific: Producing a great number or amount of something.
• Puny: Small; weak; not effective.

Q

• Querulous: Often complaining.

R

• Refractory: (Reacio, refractario...).
• Reiterated: Repeated, stated or performed again.
• Reversible: That it can be changed back to what it was before.

S

• Seditious: Language or behaviour that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government.
• Semi-comic: (Semi gracioso) Something that's mostly funny.
• Sensible: Wise and prudent. Having common sense.
• Servile: Too eager to serve and please someone else in a way that shows you do not have much respect for yourself.
• Spurious: False and not what it appears to be.
• Sprouting: Sprout = a part of a plant or just beginning to grow.
• Squashy: Soft and easy to crush.
• Suet: Greasy, fat...

T

• Treacherous: (Ground, sea) Extremely dangerous, especially because of bad weather conditions / Involving betrayal or deception.
• Tumultuous: Very loud, or full of confusion, change, or uncertainty.

U

• Unerring: Always right. “Impecable”.
• Unrivalled: Surpassing all others, no rivals.
• Unsuitable: Acceptable or not right for someone or something.

V

• Vain: Unsuccessful or useless; of no value.