omdömeslös

Swedish

Etymology

omdöme (judgement) + -s- + -lös (-less)

Adjective

omdömeslös (not comparable)

  1. injudicious (lacking in or showing a lack of good judgement)
    Antonym: omdömesgill
    Att ta med så många hundar på tåget var omdömeslöst
    Bringing that many dogs onto the train was an ill-judged decision

Usage notes

A more everyday translation might be misguided, indiscriminate, ill-judged or the like, depending on context, but injudicious seems to best match the meaning.

Declension

Inflection of omdömeslös
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular omdömeslös
Neuter singular omdömeslöst
Plural omdömeslösa
Masculine plural3 omdömeslöse
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 omdömeslöse
All omdömeslösa
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

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.