indiscriminatingadj.
/ɪndɪˈskrɪmɪneɪtɪŋ/ Not discriminating; that does not make or recognize distinctions; undiscriminating.
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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
1754–67 Bally (Mason) That indiscriminating floods should spare A chosen few.
1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. iii. 56 Too lavish and indiscriminating beneficence.
Derivatives
indiˈscriminatingly adv. in an indiscriminating manner, without discrimination.
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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
1824 New Monthly Mag. 10 105 Complaints made indiscriminatingly against authors.
1887 Spectator 23 July 995/2 A comparison which has been made too indiscriminatingly of late.
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adj.1754