indiscriminate
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From Latin in- + discriminatum, past participle of discriminare (“to divide”). Compare crime.
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indiscriminate (comparative more indiscriminate, superlative most indiscriminate)
- 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.
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Without care or making distinctions, thoughtless
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Adjective edit
indiscriminate f pl
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