indiscreteadj.
/ɪndɪˈskriːt/ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective] > indistinguishable
indiscrete1608
indiscernible1646
indiscerned1652
confoundable1813
indistinctive1846
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 53 The Ammodyte, indiscreete on the Land [L. indiscretus arenis], Doth hold the colour of the burning sand.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B7 The round crustates, sc. the Cancri, have..an in~discrete head.
2. Not divided into distinct parts.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > united into a whole > not divided, separated, or split
wholeeOE
unparteda1398
undealta1400
undividedc1412
individedc1430
undeparted1430
indeparted1434
untwinnedc1450
unsparpled1508
undissevered1521
unseparated1545
inseparate1550
unseparate1553
unsundered1594
unspleeted1609
inseparizeda1618
undisjointed1631
unparcelled1648
unsplit1656
unanalysed1661
indivise1677
unattenuated1727
uncomminuted1758
undecomposed1758
undismembered1758
indiscrete1782
undecompounded1795
undismantled1830
impartite1862
undiscrete1862
uncleave1893
1782 T. Pownall Treat. Study Antiq. 132 (T.) A chaos, in which the terrestrial elements were all in an indiscrete mass of confused matter.
1883 M. Williams Relig. Thought & Life in India 13 Next all was water, all a chaos indiscrete.
1893 A. M. Fairbairn Place Christ in Mod. Theol. ii. ii. iii. 409 The Absolute is not Substance homogeneous and indiscrete.
Derivatives
indiˈscretely adv. without separation or division.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb]
indifferentlyc1374
indistinctlyc1420
confusedly?1531
undistinctly1548
confusely?c1550
without respect?c1550
without choice1576
intermixedlya1586
unrespectively1586
pell-mell1587
promiscuously1593
mixedly1597
indiscriminate1598
promiscually1602
swoopstake1603
promiscuous1616
irrespectively1624
muddily1648
indiscriminately1652
humdrum1660
indiscriminally1665
undistinguishingly1665
indeterminatelya1676
indiscriminatively1684
indistinguishably1689
indiscretely1698
indistinctively1699
undiscerningly1707
uncritically1763
indiscriminatingly1824
undiscriminatingly1894
unfastidiously1929
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 463 As for Method, there is none at all..the Species being promiscuously and indiscreetly placed as they came to Hand.
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adj.1608