calejado

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• callejado (pre-reform spelling)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.leˈʒa.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.leˈʒa.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.leˈʒa.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.lɨˈʒa.du/ [kɐ.lɨˈʒa.ðu]

• Hyphenation: ca‧le‧ja‧do

Adjective

calejado (feminine calejada, masculine plural calejados, feminine plural calejadas, comparable)

1. callous (having calli)

   Synonym: caloso

2. (figurative) jaded; hardened (cynically insensitive; made callous by experience)

   Synonym: cínico

   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “O soldado amarello [The yellow soldier]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎, Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 160:

     Era um bicho resistente, callejado.

     He was a tough fellow, callous.

Participle

calejado (feminine calejada, masculine plural calejados, feminine plural calejadas)

1. past participle of calejar

Further reading

• “calejado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “calejado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025