debades

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Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan de bada, from Arabic بَاطِل (bāṭil). Compare Galician and Spanish en balde.

Pronunciation

Adverb

debades

  1. in vain
    Synonyms: en va, inútilment
    no debadesnot for nothing…
    • 2017 October 8, Ricard Ruiz Garzón, “Més humans que un replicant”, in El País:
      D’aquesta nissaga, titllada de prometeica en al·lusió al rebel que va modelar els humans del fang i els va atorgar el foc de la cultura i la tecnologia, sovint se’n subratlla el càstig al creador per haver desafiat els déus o la natura, sobretot a partir d’una Mary Shelley que el 1818 va crear el seu —el març bicententari— Frankenstein (no debades subtitulat El modern Prometeu).
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  2. (Valencia) free of charge
    Synonym: gratis

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Galician

Verb

debades

  1. second-person plural present subjunctive of deber