Indiscriminate Definition

ĭndĭ-skrĭmə-nĭt
adjective
Not based on careful selection or a discerning taste; confused, random, or promiscuous.
Webster's New World
Not discriminating; not making careful choices or distinctions.
Webster's New World
Random; haphazard.
Indiscriminate violence; an indiscriminate assortment of used books for sale.
American Heritage
Confused; chaotic.
The indiscriminate policies of the previous administration.
American Heritage
Unrestrained or wanton; profligate.
Indiscriminate spending.
American Heritage
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Origin of Indiscriminate

  • From Latin in-, + discriminatum, past participle of discriminare (“to divide”). Confer crime.

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Indiscriminate Sentence Examples

  • He is friendly to Stephen, but not an indiscriminate partisan.

  • Restriction of Immigration.-New countries have sought to escape certain evils of indiscriminate immigration.

  • This danger has been increased, as elsewhere in Italy, by indiscriminate timber-felling on the higher mountains without provision for re-afforestation, though considerable oak, beech, elm and pine forests still exist and are the home of wolves, wild boars and even bears.

  • As evidence of indiscriminate slaughter the case of the American buffaloes may be cited.

  • The introduction of a third fur in the same garment or indiscriminate selection of colours of silk linings, braids, buttons, &c., often spoils an otherwise good article.

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IININD

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ETEATE

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14 Letter Words14 Letter Words Starting With I14 Letter Words Ending With E