oskadlig

Swedish

Etymology

o- +‎ skadlig, from Old Swedish oskadheliker.

Adjective

oskadlig (comparative oskadligare, superlative oskadligast)

1. harmless, innocuous

   De sammansvurne hade för övrigt endast att välja mellan kejsarmordet och inbördeskriget, och de kunde ju förebära den cesariska läran om »raison d’État», då de valde det förra som både säkrare och oskadligare.

   The conspirators had by the way only to chose between killing the emperor and civil war, and they could present the Cesarian theory of »raison d’État», when they preferred the former as being both safer and more harmless.

Declension

Inflection of oskadlig
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	oskadlig	oskadligare	oskadligast
Neuter singular	oskadligt	oskadligare	oskadligast
Plural	oskadliga	oskadligare	oskadligast
Masculine plural3	oskadlige	oskadligare	oskadligast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	oskadlige	oskadligare	oskadligaste
All	oskadliga	oskadligare	oskadligaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Antonyms

• skadlig

Related terms

• oskadliggöra
• oskadlighet

References

• oskadlig in Walter E. Harlock, Svensk-engelsk ordbok : skolupplaga (1964)
• oskadlig in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• oskadlig in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)