indiscriminate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin in- + discriminatum, past participle of discriminare (“to divide”). Compare crime.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
indiscriminate (comparative more indiscriminate, superlative most indiscriminate)
- Without care or making distinctions, thoughtless.
- How can anyone be so indiscriminate in making friends as he is?
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 126:
- An animal so indiscriminate in its eating habits that it eats coal, boat cushions, and tomtoms, would be only too eager to taste a swimmer or a diver—which must look more edible than an unopened can of salmon.
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Translations[edit]
Without care or making distinctions, thoughtless
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Italian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
indiscriminate f pl
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