radeloos
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ra‧de‧loos
Adjective
radeloos (comparative radelozer, superlative meest radeloos or radeloost)
- desperate, being in dire need of something, and willing to take risks to get it
- at a loss, being uncertain about something, or lacking something (ideas, direction, ability)
- Lacking ideas, being out of ideas: ideeëloos
- Lacking direction, being directionless: richtingloos
- Not knowing what to say, being at a loss for words or speechless: sprakeloos
Inflection
| Inflection of radeloos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | radeloos | |||
| inflected | radeloze | |||
| comparative | radelozer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | radeloos | radelozer | het radeloost het radelooste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | radeloze | radelozere | radelooste |
| n. sing. | radeloos | radelozer | radelooste | |
| plural | radeloze | radelozere | radelooste | |
| definite | radeloze | radelozere | radelooste | |
| partitive | radeloos | radelozers | — | |
Synonyms
- [1] wanhopig
- [2] (out of ideas) ideeëloos; (directionless) richtingloos; (at a loss for words) sprakeloos
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