onwijs
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch onwijs (“unwise”). Equivalent to on- + wijs. The sense of "incredible" became popular in youth-speak around 1980.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: on‧wijs
Adjective
onwijs (comparative onwijzer, superlative meest onwijs or onwijst)
- unwise
- Antonym: wijs
- incredible, astonishing
- Wat een onwijze prestatie! ― What an incredible performance!
Inflection
| Inflection of onwijs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | onwijs | |||
| inflected | onwijze | |||
| comparative | onwijzer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | onwijs | onwijzer | het onwijst het onwijste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | onwijze | onwijzere | onwijste |
| n. sing. | onwijs | onwijzer | onwijste | |
| plural | onwijze | onwijzere | onwijste | |
| definite | onwijze | onwijzere | onwijste | |
| partitive | onwijs | onwijzers | — | |
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