aparatoso
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
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- Hyphenation: a‧pa‧ra‧to‧so
Adjective
[edit]aparatoso (feminine aparatosa, masculine plural aparatosos, feminine plural aparatosas, metaphonic)
- sumptuous; lavish
- embellished, but lacking in content
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[edit]Spanish
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]aparatoso (feminine aparatosa, masculine plural aparatosos, feminine plural aparatosas)
- showy, lavish, flamboyant, meretricious
- spectacular
- Synonym: espectacular
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 314:
- Ciertas formas aparatosas de histerismo y epilepsia, son también para el vulgo enfermedades demoníacas, y el remedio más eficaz es el que en menos tiempo le eche del cuerpo los malos espíritus.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “aparatoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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