tupido

Spanish

FWOTD – 13 January 2024

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈpido/ [t̪uˈpi.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: tu‧pi‧do

Adjective

tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)

1. thick, dense
   • 1905, La chicharra y la rana:

     Entre las tupidas hojas de un árbol la chicharra chirriaba.

     Among the dense leaves of a tree, the cicada was chirping.

   • 1918, “Raza de combate malaya”, in La Hacienda:

     Su plumaje es muy tupido y de color rojo o castaño y negro

     Its plumage is very dense and red or brown and black

   • 2015 September 24, “Iguala, la ciudad de los desaparecidos”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Comenzaron recorriendo los tupidos cerros cercanos para buscar cuerpos.

     They began trawling the dense nearby hills to get some bodies.

   • 2016 December 20, “Es hora de constituir a Venezuela”, in El Nacional‎^[2]:

     el tupido bosque de leyes

     the thick forest of laws

2. dim, clumsy

Usage notes

• For the sense “thick, dense”, it most commonly refers to hair (bigote tupido, pelo tupido, vello tupido), plants (bosque tupido), or networks (red tupida)

Derived terms

• tupidamente
• tupidez

Participle

tupido (feminine tupida, masculine plural tupidos, feminine plural tupidas)

1. past participle of tupir

Further reading

• “tupido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10