historielös
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]historia + -lös. Not listed in SAOB. Listed in SAOL 10th ed. (1973), but not 9th ed. (1954).
Adjective
[edit]historielös (not comparable)
- ignorant regarding history, lacking (knowledge of) history, unhistoried, historyless
- Alldeles historielöst och amerikanskt sköt det närbelägna samhället Malmberget upp.
- Entirely American and without history, the nearby village Malmberget sprung up.
- Man plägar beteckna den »historielösa» kulturen såsom etnologiens egentliga föremål.
- Traditionally cultures without (written) history have been the real subject of ethnology.
- dagens historielösa ungdom
- today's youth, ignorant of history
- Alldeles historielöst och amerikanskt sköt det närbelägna samhället Malmberget upp.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of historielös | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | historielös | — | — |
| Neuter singular | historielöst | — | — |
| Plural | historielösa | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | historielöse | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | historielöse | — | — |
| All | historielösa | — | — |
| 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 | |||
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- historielös in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- historielös in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (10th ed., 1st printing, 1973)