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Spanish
Etymology
From contumeria + -oso, from contumelia (“offense, affront”), from Latin contumēlia (“insult”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kontumeˈɾjoso/
- Rhymes: -oso
- Syllabification: con‧tu‧me‧rio‧so
Adjective
contumerioso (feminine contumeriosa, masculine plural contumeriosos, feminine plural contumeriosas) (colloquial)
- (El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Southeastern Mexico) nitpicky, finicky, fussy, picky, persnickety, fastidious
- Synonym: quisquilloso
- (El Salvador, Honduras) complicated; tedious; time-consuming
- Synonyms: complicado, difícil, tedioso, engorroso
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