driest
English
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
driest
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German drīste, from Old Saxon thrīsti, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīstī.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drist/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: driest
- Rhymes: -ist
Adjective
driest (comparative driester, superlative meest driest or driestst)
Declension
| Declension of driest | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | driest | |||
| inflected | drieste | |||
| comparative | driester | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | driest | driester | het driestst het driestste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | drieste | driestere | driestste |
| n. sing. | driest | driester | driestste | |
| plural | drieste | driestere | driestste | |
| definite | drieste | driestere | driestste | |
| partitive | driests | driesters | — | |
Derived terms
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dri͜yːst/
Verb
drīest
- second/third-person singular present indicative of drēosan
Plautdietsch
Adjective
driest