nuchter
Dutch
Etymology
Germanic, cognate with German nüchtern
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ʏxtər
Adjective
nuchter (comparative nuchterder, superlative nuchterst)
- prosaic, matter of fact
- sober, not drunk
- (of a person) having neither eaten nor drunk anything
- (of a body) empty as a result of fasting
- (of an animal) newborn
Inflection
| Inflection of nuchter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | nuchter | |||
| inflected | nuchtere | |||
| comparative | nuchterder | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | nuchter | nuchterder | het nuchterst het nuchterste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | nuchtere | nuchterdere | nuchterste |
| n. sing. | nuchter | nuchterder | nuchterste | |
| plural | nuchtere | nuchterdere | nuchterste | |
| definite | nuchtere | nuchterdere | nuchterste | |
| partitive | nuchters | nuchterders | — | |
Derived terms
- nuchterheid
- nuchterling m
- ontnuchteren
Adverb
nuchter
- matter-of-factly