feio

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese feo (“ugly”), from Latin foedus (“hideous”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to frighten; be afraid”). Cognate with Galician feo, Asturian feu and Spanish feo. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -eju, -ɐju Hyphenation: fei‧o === Noun === feio m (plural feios, feminine feia, feminine plural feias) an ugly person === Adjective === feio (feminine feia, masculine plural feios, feminine plural feias, comparable, comparative mais feio, superlative o mais feio or feiíssimo, diminutive feiinho, augmentative feião) ugly (visually unpleasant) Synonym: feioso Antonyms: bonito, belo, lindo prédio feio ― ugly building jaqueta feia ― ugly jacket rapaz feio ― ugly young man (figurative) wrong, immoral Synonyms: errado, imoral, antiético Antonyms: correto, moral, ético (figurative) disrespectful, impolite, rude Synonyms: rude, desrespeitoso, deseducado, descortês, errado Antonyms: educado, cortês, correto ==== Inflection ==== ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “general”): bonito, belo, lindo === Adverb === feio (comparable, comparative mais feio, superlative o mais feio) in an ugly manner severely, critically, very much (used when the result is negative) Errou feio! ― You severely missed it! === Further reading === “feio”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “feio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026