empecinado

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /empeθiˈnado/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /empesiˈnado/
  • Rhymes: -ado
  • Syllabification: em‧pe‧ci‧na‧do

Adjective

empecinado (feminine empecinada, masculine plural empecinados, feminine plural empecinadas)

  1. hellbent, hell-bent, dead set, (stubbornly) determined
    Synonym: empeñado
    • 2020 June 17, Luz Gómez García, “Federico Corriente, arabista en la España imposible”, in El País:
      Con Federico Corriente también se va el mejor lingüista del árabe andalusí, una disciplina que fundó en los años sesenta contra viento y marea de los mandarines del arabismo español, empecinados en la hispanización del pasado peninsular árabe.
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Participle

empecinado (feminine empecinada, masculine plural empecinados, feminine plural empecinadas)

  1. past participle of empecinar

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