moderaat
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin moderātus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmoː.dəˈraːt/
- Hyphenation: mo‧de‧raat
- Rhymes: -aːt
Adjective
moderaat (comparative moderater, superlative moderaatst)
- moderate
- Synonym: gematigd
- (historical, politics) politically conservative, moderate (viewed as being in between liberals and reactionaries in the nineteenth century)
Inflection
| Inflection of moderaat | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | moderaat | |||
| inflected | moderate | |||
| comparative | moderater | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | moderaat | moderater | het moderaatst het moderaatste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | moderate | moderatere | moderaatste |
| n. sing. | moderaat | moderater | moderaatste | |
| plural | moderate | moderatere | moderaatste | |
| definite | moderate | moderatere | moderaatste | |
| partitive | moderaats | moderaters | — | |
Noun
moderaat m (plural moderaten)
- (historical) A political conservative, a moderate.
- Synonym: conservatief