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leuk.

nice, pleasant, enjoyable

4 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

adj/løːk/

  1. nice, pleasant, enjoyable

    We hebben een leuke vakantie gehad.
    Dit is het leukste spel.

  2. attractive

    Vind je haar leuk?

  3. calm, level-headed

    obsolete
    Hij was een leuke man.

  4. lukewarm

    obsolete
    Het water was leuk.
Where this word comes from

Uncertain, probably related to lauw (“lukewarm”); compare English luke and lukewarm. The earliest attestations refer to the sense of "lukewarm", other senses are later semantic developments. The sense "calm, level-headed" is still visible in some derived terms, such as leukweg, leukjes and doodleuk.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.