tupido

Spanish

FWOTD – 13 January 2024

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuˈpido/ [t̪uˈpi.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ido
  • Syllabification: tu‧pi‧do

Adjective

tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)

  1. thick, dense
    • 1905, La chicharra y la rana:
      Entre las tupidas hojas de un árbol la chicharra chirriaba.
      Among the dense leaves of a tree, the cicada was chirping.
    • 1918, “Raza de combate malaya”, in La Hacienda:
      Su plumaje es muy tupido y de color rojo o castaño y negro
      Its plumage is very dense and red or brown and black
    • 2015 September 24, “Iguala, la ciudad de los desaparecidos”, in El País:
      Comenzaron recorriendo los tupidos cerros cercanos para buscar cuerpos.
      They began trawling the dense nearby hills to get some bodies.
    • 2016 December 20, “Es hora de constituir a Venezuela”, in El Nacional:
      el tupido bosque de leyes
      the thick forest of laws
  2. dim, clumsy

Usage notes

  • For the sense thick, dense, it most commonly refers to hair (bigote tupido, pelo tupido, vello tupido), plants (bosque tupido), or networks (red tupida)

Derived terms

Participle

tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)

  1. past participle of tupir

Further reading

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