driest

English

Adjective

driest

1. superlative form of dry: most dry

Anagrams

• direst, tiders, disert, stride, redist, ridest, drites, Stride, dister

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German drīste, from Old Saxon thrīsti, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīstī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drist/

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• Hyphenation: driest
• Rhymes: -ist

Adjective

driest (comparative driester, superlative meest driest or driestst)

1. bold, reckless

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

• driesteling
• driestheid

 

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dri͜yːst/

Verb

drīest

1. second/third-person singular present indicative of drēosan

Plautdietsch

Adjective

driest

1. bold, confident
2. brassy, forward