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verlig

verlig adjective: politically optimistic and receptive to change.

Adjective

verlig (comparative more verlig, superlative most verlig)

  1. (South Africa) politically optimistic and receptive to change
    • The Hertzog Group supporters were labelled verkramp, and the Vorster supporters verlig. The fact, of course, is that the vast majority of Afrikaner Nationalists were and are verkramp, and only a small minority verlig.1979, J. H. P. Serfontein, Brotherhood of Power: An Exposé of the Secret Afrikaner Broederbond

Antonyms of verlig

Forms of verlig

comparativemore verlig
superlativemost verlig

Origin of verlig

From Afrikaans verlig from Dutch verlicht.

Questions about verlig

What does verlig mean?
Verlig means politically optimistic and receptive to change.
What part of speech is verlig?
Verlig is an adjective.

Words near verlig in the dictionary

  1. verlanizing
  2. Verlet integration
  3. Verlet list
  4. Verlet lists
  5. Verley
  6. verlig
  7. verligte
  8. verligtes
  9. verlukast
  10. Verly
  11. Verma

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