indiscriminate

• indiscriminant (nonstandard)

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪn.dɪsˈkɹɪm.ɪn.ət/

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indiscriminate (comparative more indiscriminate, superlative most indiscriminate)

1. 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.

• promiscuous

• indiscriminately
• indiscriminative

indiscriminate f pl

1. feminine plural of indiscriminato