moderaat

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin moderātus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌmoː.dəˈraːt/
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  • Hyphenation: mo‧de‧raat
  • Rhymes: -aːt

Adjective

moderaat (comparative moderater, superlative moderaatst)

  1. moderate
    Synonym: gematigd
  2. (historical, politics) politically conservative, moderate (viewed as being in between liberals and reactionaries in the nineteenth century)

Inflection

Declension 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)

  1. (historical) A political conservative, a moderate.
    Synonym: conservatief