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单词 indiscriminate
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Definition of indiscriminate in English:

indiscriminate

adjective ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnətˌɪndəˈskrɪmənət
  • 1Done at random or without careful judgement.

    the indiscriminate use of antibiotics can cause problems
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Algeria became caught in a cycle of violence, which became increasingly random and indiscriminate.
    • Such a process would avoid prejudice and indiscriminate killing.
    • In fact, the current indiscriminate killing was a strategic mistake.
    • The destruction seems indiscriminate, the victims random, the consequences immense.
    • Modern war is merciless, it does not spare pregnant women or infants; it is indiscriminate killing and destroying.
    • The new wave has ratcheted savagery and indiscriminate killing to unthinkable levels.
    • Loyalists assassinations seemed indiscriminate, unconscionable and wild but they were never mindless.
    • His country and his people have been attacked in a savage and indiscriminate way.
    • We do not believe that it should be used randomly on an indiscriminate basis.
    • It was random, it was indiscriminate, it was murderous, and it was close to home.
    • Mortars in particular seemed indiscriminate in inflicting casualties.
    • Charities have condemned the weapons for the indiscriminate killing and maiming of civilians both during and long after wars have ended.
    • This contrasting case helps us to see in what sense indiscriminate terrorist killing is the killing of the innocent.
    • Both areas were crowded and the results were indiscriminate casualties.
    • They were devastatingly effective because they can cover wide areas with intense and indiscriminate firepower.
    • By the end of 1941, more than half a million Jews had been slaughtered and the killing had grown indiscriminate.
    • Now the attacks are becoming more random, brutal and indiscriminate.
    • The ensuing shootout resulted in the indiscriminate killing of women and children.
    • This is the absolute opposite of terrorism which allows for the indiscriminate killing of all peoples.
    • The bands' original political motives faded, and they turned to banditry and indiscriminate killing.
    Synonyms
    non-selective, unselective, undiscriminating, uncritical, aimless, hit-or-miss, haphazard, random, unsystematic, unmethodical
    wholesale, general, sweeping, blanket
    broad-based, wide, catholic, eclectic, varied, miscellaneous, heterogeneous, motley, confused, chaotic
    thoughtless, unthinking, unconsidered, casual, careless
    rare promiscuous
    1. 1.1 (of a person) not using or exercising discrimination.
      she was indiscriminate with her affections

Derivatives

  • indiscriminateness

  • noun
    • The screenplay delivers an ambitious epic that is dense in a way that indicates not indiscriminateness but rather the existence of a highly personal internal logic.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the eradication of color and blank skies alone could not atone for the analog indiscriminateness of photography.
      • He pondered the increase in indiscriminateness among terrorists, and he posited several possible reasons accounting for this upsurge.
      • It is due to its indiscriminateness that human sexuality is inherently prone to perversion.
  • indiscrimination

  • noun ˌɪndɪskrɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)nˌɪndəˌskrɪməˈneɪʃ(ə)n
    • I'm not sure my point was about marshalling the judgment of history so much as resisting the indiscrimination of contemporaneity.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Inattention is both opposed to a discriminate subject/object relationship, and is, at the same time, the realization of a fantasy of indiscrimination.
      • Centrality, extremism, and indiscrimination all manifest themselves in the assigned raw score standard deviations and rater fit statistics.
      • What continues to remain in our mind and memory is the hope for a new dawn of promises, free from atrocities and indiscriminations.

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense 'haphazard, not selective'): from in-1 'not' + Latin discriminatus, past participle of discriminare (see discriminate).

 
 

Definition of indiscriminate in US English:

indiscriminate

adjectiveˌɪndəˈskrɪmənətˌindəˈskrimənət
  • 1Done at random or without careful judgment.

    the indiscriminate killing of civilians
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Algeria became caught in a cycle of violence, which became increasingly random and indiscriminate.
    • The destruction seems indiscriminate, the victims random, the consequences immense.
    • Charities have condemned the weapons for the indiscriminate killing and maiming of civilians both during and long after wars have ended.
    • This contrasting case helps us to see in what sense indiscriminate terrorist killing is the killing of the innocent.
    • It was random, it was indiscriminate, it was murderous, and it was close to home.
    • The bands' original political motives faded, and they turned to banditry and indiscriminate killing.
    • We do not believe that it should be used randomly on an indiscriminate basis.
    • Loyalists assassinations seemed indiscriminate, unconscionable and wild but they were never mindless.
    • Such a process would avoid prejudice and indiscriminate killing.
    • In fact, the current indiscriminate killing was a strategic mistake.
    • Modern war is merciless, it does not spare pregnant women or infants; it is indiscriminate killing and destroying.
    • His country and his people have been attacked in a savage and indiscriminate way.
    • They were devastatingly effective because they can cover wide areas with intense and indiscriminate firepower.
    • This is the absolute opposite of terrorism which allows for the indiscriminate killing of all peoples.
    • Mortars in particular seemed indiscriminate in inflicting casualties.
    • The new wave has ratcheted savagery and indiscriminate killing to unthinkable levels.
    • Now the attacks are becoming more random, brutal and indiscriminate.
    • The ensuing shootout resulted in the indiscriminate killing of women and children.
    • By the end of 1941, more than half a million Jews had been slaughtered and the killing had grown indiscriminate.
    • Both areas were crowded and the results were indiscriminate casualties.
    Synonyms
    non-selective, unselective, undiscriminating, uncritical, aimless, hit-or-miss, haphazard, random, unsystematic, unmethodical
    1. 1.1 (of a person) not using or exercising discrimination.
      she was indiscriminate with her affections

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense ‘haphazard, not selective’): from in- ‘not’ + Latin discriminatus, past participle of discriminare (see discriminate).

 
 
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