feio

See also: feîo

Portuguese
uma mulher feia (an ugly woman)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese feo (“ugly”), from Latin foedus (“hideous”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoyǝ- (“to frighten; be afraid”). Cognate with Galician feo, Asturian feu and Spanish feo.

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfɐj.u/, /ˈfej.u/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfej.u/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfej.o/
  • Hyphenation: fei‧o
  • Rhymes: -eju

Noun

feio m (plural feios, feminine feia, feminine plural feias)

  1. an ugly person

Adjective

feio m (feminine singular feia, masculine plural feios, feminine plural feias, comparable)

  1. ugly (visually unpleasant)
    prédio feio ― ugly building
    jaqueta feia ― ugly jacket
    rapaz feio ― ugly young man
    Synonym: feioso
  2. (figuratively) wrong, immoral
    Você roubou comida? Que feio!
    Have you stolen food? How wicked!
    Synonyms: errado, imoral
  3. (figuratively) disrespectful, impolite, rude
    É feio arrotar enquanto se come.
    It is rude to burp while eating.
    Synonyms: rude, desrespeitoso, deseducado, errado

Inflection
Inflection of feio
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
positive feio feia feios feias
comparative mais feio mais feia mais feios mais feias
superlative o mais feio
feiíssimo		 a mais feia
feiíssima		 os mais feios
feiíssimos		 as mais feias
feiíssimas
augmentative feião feiona feiões feionas
diminutive feiinho feiinha feiinhos feiinhas

Antonyms

Adverb

feio (comparative mais feio superlative o mais feio)

  1. uglily, in an ugly manner
  2. severely, critically, very much (used when the result is negative)
    Errou feio! ― You severely missed it!
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