nuchter

Dutch

Etymology

Germanic, cognate with German nüchtern

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ʏxtər

Adjective

nuchter (comparative nuchterder, superlative nuchterst)

  1. prosaic, matter of fact
  2. sober, not drunk
  3. (of a person) having neither eaten nor drunk anything
  4. (of a body) empty as a result of fasting
  5. (of an animal) newborn

Inflection

Inflection of nuchter
uninflected nuchter
inflected nuchtere
comparative nuchterder
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial nuchternuchterderhet nuchterst
het nuchterste
indefinite m./f. sing. nuchterenuchterderenuchterste
n. sing. nuchternuchterdernuchterste
plural nuchterenuchterderenuchterste
definite nuchterenuchterderenuchterste
partitive nuchtersnuchterders

Derived terms

Adverb

nuchter

  1. matter-of-factly
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