hoogdravend
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hoog + dravend, literally “high-trotting”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: hoog‧dra‧vend
Adjective
[edit]hoogdravend (comparative hoogdravender, superlative hoogdravendst)
- (of speech or text) bombastic, pompous, pretentious, grandiose.
- Synonyms: bombastisch, overdreven, gezwollen, pompeus
Declension
[edit]| Declension of hoogdravend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | hoogdravend | |||
| inflected | hoogdravende | |||
| comparative | hoogdravender | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | hoogdravend | hoogdravender | het hoogdravendst het hoogdravendste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | hoogdravende | hoogdravendere | hoogdravendste |
| n. sing. | hoogdravend | hoogdravender | hoogdravendste | |
| plural | hoogdravende | hoogdravendere | hoogdravendste | |
| definite | hoogdravende | hoogdravendere | hoogdravendste | |
| partitive | hoogdravends | hoogdravenders | — | |