indiscriminateadj.
/ɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnət/ Not discriminate.
1. Of things: Not marked by discrimination or discernment; done without making distinctions; confused, promiscuous.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective] > not discriminated
undistinct1534
promiscuous1570
muddy?1571
confounded1572
confuse1577
undistinguished1598
indistinct1604
indistinguished1608
confused1611
muddied1647
indiscriminate1649
indiscriminated1669
undiscriminated1768
unselect1826
unspecialized1874
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ix. §2 Before he gave to him an indiscriminate testimony.
1755 Connoisseur No. 58. ⁋1 The inconveniences arising from the indiscriminate power lodged in our Press-gangs.
1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit xiii. 160 They lay aside this indiscriminate vengeance.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xiv. 195 Otanes..commanded an indiscriminate slaughter without regard to age or to place.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xviii. 401 Partisans who are loud in indiscriminate censure and applause.
1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 23 The indiscriminate almsgiving which has done so much to create and encourage pauperism.
2. Of persons or agents: Undiscriminating, not exercising discrimination; making no distinctions.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective]
blinda1400
unchoosinga1586
undiscerning1589
unrespective1609
irrespecting1625
promiscuous1633
incurious1645
indistinct1650
irrespective1650
uncritical1659
indiscerning1664
undistinguishing1665
undistinguishable1702
unrefining1735
indiscriminating1754
undiscriminating1776
indiscriminate1792
unfastidious1816
rough1819
lumping1827
indistinguishing1828
unparticularizing1828
farraginous1837
imperceiverant1844
scattergun1845
undistinctive1851
indiscriminative1854
unselecting1895
scattershot1961
1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) III. xlii. 120 The indiscriminate hand of vengeance has lumped together innocent and guilty.
1808 Sketches of Char. (1813) I. 200 You are too indiscriminate in your partiality for them.
1840 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. vii. 107 Without being one of his indiscriminate admirers, I like parts of his books.
3. quasi-adv.= indiscriminately adv.
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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
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. iii. 71 Could euer wise man wish in good estate The vse of all things indiscriminate?
Derivatives
indiˈscriminateness n. the quality of being indiscriminate.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [noun]
indistinction1624
muddiness1645
indiscrimination1649
puddling1695
undiscerning1711
muddying1713
under-niceness1748
confusion1771
mixing1831
confounding1850
colour blindness1861
undiscriminatingness1866
muddling1873
indiscriminateness1879
unfastidiousness1881
indiscriminancy1890
lumping1903
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. Own Times I. ix. 183 Measures to mitigate the rigour and to correct the indiscriminateness of the death punishment.
1890 Spectator 13 Dec. 866/2 No word can be denuded of its true utility by fatuous indiscriminateness of application.
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