oaktsam

Swedish

Etymology

From o- (“un-”) +‎ aktsam (“careful, attentive”). Compare German unachtsam, Danish uagtsom, Norwegian Bokmål uaktsom.

Adjective

oaktsam (comparative oaktsammare, superlative oaktsammast)

1. careless, heedless, inattentive

Declension

Inflection of oaktsam
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	oaktsam	oaktsammare	oaktsammast
Neuter singular	oaktsamt	oaktsammare	oaktsammast
Plural	oaktsamma	oaktsammare	oaktsammast
Masculine plural3	oaktsamme	oaktsammare	oaktsammast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	oaktsamme	oaktsammare	oaktsammaste
All	oaktsamma	oaktsammare	oaktsammaste
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

Synonyms

• vårdslös

Antonyms

• aktsam

Derived terms

• oaktsamhet (“carelessness; recklessness”)
• oaktsam våldtäkt (“negligent rape”)

References

• “oaktsam”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎^[1] (in Swedish), 1937