atosigante
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /atosiˈɡante/ [a.t̪o.siˈɣ̞ãn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: a‧to‧si‧gan‧te
Adjective
atosigante m or f (masculine and feminine plural atosigantes)
- worrying
- Synonyms: preocupante, inquietante
- 2017 March 4, “China ignora la alocada carrera armamentista de Trump”, in El Periódico[1]:
- Ya hace años se citó con China en el Pacífico para discutirse la primacía global y su presencia es atosigante.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “atosigante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “atosigante”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]