garrafal
Catalan
Adjective
garrafal m or f (masculine and feminine plural garrafals)
Further reading
- “garrafal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡa.ʁaˈfaw/ [ɡa.haˈfaʊ̯]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ɡa.ʁaˈfaw/ [ɡa.χaˈfaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡɐ.ʁɐˈfal/ [ɡɐ.ʁɐˈfaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡɐ.ʁɐˈfa.li/
- Rhymes: -al, -aw
- Hyphenation: gar‧ra‧fal
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaraˈfal/ [ɡa.raˈfal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: ga‧rra‧fal
Adjective
garrafal m or f (masculine and feminine plural garrafales)
- (of an error) huge, colossal, glaring
- error garrafal ― colossal error
- fallo garrafal ― colossal error
- falta garrafal ― epic fail
- ausencia garrafal ― glaring absence
- 1899, Benito Pérez Galdós, “Chapter 4”, in La estafeta romántica:
- y está siempre buscándole tres pies al gato, hasta que le da la idea negra de pegarse un tiro, lo cual debo condenar por garrafal tontería, a más de condenarlo por pecado execrable.
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Further reading
- “garrafal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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