небезобидный

English translation: dubious

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Russian term or phrase:	небезобидный
English translation:	dubious
Entered by:	Susan Welsh

14:59 May 12, 2015

Russian to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Psychology / education

Russian term or phrase: небезобидный

This is an academic paper on educational psychology.

Как может ученик узнать о своем незнании?... Вопрос о том, надо ли стремиться к развитию **очень небезобидной способности** знать свои пределы и преодолевать их, не является дискуссионным: он лежит в сфере ценностей. От его решения зависит выбор целей и, соответственно, методов начального образования.

So: обидный = offensive
безобидный = inoffensive, innocent, harmless
небезобидный = rather offensive?? Ushakov: Достаточно обидный. || Такой, что может сам обидеть, способный обидеть другого.
очень небезобидный = very rather offensive???

In my context, this makes no sense at all, the more so since the quality seems to be a positive one. But Russian anti-drug chief Ivanov says: "Марихуана - **очень небезобидная вещь.** Она, прежде всего, угнетает и ведет к психиатрическим заболеваниям - шизофрении, маниакальным процессам, глубоким депрессиям и так далее."

What am I left with here?

Thanks!

Susan Welsh KudoZ activity Questions: 524 (none open) (22 closed without grading) Answers: 462 United States
Local time: 10:16

not at all harmless

Explanation:
not in the least innocent

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Note added at 4 mins (2015-05-12 15:04:30 GMT)
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or

...which only seems harmless

deceptively harmless

Selected response from:

Mikhail Kropotov
Germany
Local time: 16:16

Grading comment

Finding myself in the position of King Solomon, with the possibility of hacking the baby in half with a sword, I give the points to Mikhail because his discussion comments were most helpful and got me past the mental block I was having. However, I think Jurate's solution is excellent, and will use that, so thanks to her too!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +3

hardly harmless

Mark Berelekhis

4 +2

not at all harmless

Mikhail Kropotov

harmful

Ekaterina Gvritishvili

more harmful than not

Eugenio 85

dubious

Jurate Kazlauskaite

Discussion entries: 8

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

hardly harmless

Explanation:
Works great for the second instance (regarding marijuana), but I'm not so sure about the first -- kind of puzzles me as well.

Mark Berelekhis
United States
Local time: 10:16
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian,

English
PRO pts in category: 80

Notes to answerer

Asker: Just to be clear, since fazil apparently misunderstood: the bit about marijuana is NOT my source text; it was something I found while googling and put in as an example that is quite clear in meaning, but which means the opposite of what my source text seems to mean.

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

not at all harmless

Mikhail Kropotov
Germany
Local time: 16:16
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 32

Grading comment

35 mins confidence:

harmful

Explanation:
dangerous

Ekaterina Gvritishvili
Russian Federation
Local time: 19:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Russian

22 hrs confidence:

more harmful than not

Explanation:
Another version of translation, though, may be, not quite exact.

Eugenio 85
Local time: 17:16
Native speaker of:

Russian

1 day 1 hr confidence:

dubious

Explanation:
or questionable

Example sentence(s):

Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dubious

Jurate Kazlauskaite
Lithuania
Local time: 17:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Lithuanian
PRO pts in category: 4

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