indiscriminate
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dɪˈskrɪm adjective
1.
not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
2.
not discriminate; haphazard; thoughtless: indiscriminate slaughter.
3.
not kept apart or divided; thrown together; jumbled: an indiscriminate combination of colors and styles.
Related forms
in·dis·crim·i·nate·ly, adverb
in·dis·crim·i·nate·ness, noun
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| —adj | |
| 1. | lacking discrimination or careful choice; random or promiscuous |
| 2. | jumbled; confused |
| indis'criminately | |
| —adv | |
| indis'criminateness | |
| —n | |
| indiscrimi'nation | |
| —n | |
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Indiscriminate
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Example sentences
Amazon horned frogs achieve their enormous girth by being generally indiscriminate about what they eat.
It was a crucial part of his primary education, though eccentric in so far as he was pitched in at so indiscriminate a level.
The protections for the imagination are indiscriminate.
We get the sense of an indiscriminate intellectual curiosity that can't be contained by the routines of the workday.
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