verlig

English

Etymology

Afrikaans

Adjective

verlig (comparative more verlig, superlative most verlig)

1. (South Africa) politically optimistic and receptive to change
   • 1979, J. H. P. Serfontein, Brotherhood of Power: An Exposé of the Secret Afrikaner Broederbond:

     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.

Antonyms

• verkramp

Anagrams

• Vergil