indiscreet

English

Etymology

in- +‎ discreet.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːt

Adjective

indiscreet (comparative more indiscreet, superlative most indiscreet)

1. Not discreet; lacking in discretion.
   • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 1049714034, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:

     Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.

Derived terms

• indiscreetly
• indiscreetness

Usage notes

In modern standard spelling, indiscrete (not divided into discrete parts) is not to be confused with indiscreet (conspicuous; incautious).

Translations

not discreet; wanting in discretion

• Armenian: անհամեստ (hy) (anhamest), անզգույշ (hy) (anzguyš), չմտածված (čʿmtacvac)
• Bulgarian: нетактичен (bg) (netaktičen)
• Catalan: indiscret
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不謹慎的, 不谨慎的 (bùjǐnshènde)

• Czech: indiskrétní
• Danish: indiskret
• Dutch: indiscreet (nl)
• Finnish: harkitsematon (fi), epähieno (fi)
• French: indiscret (fr)
• Galician: indiscreto, lareto (gl), lercho (gl)
• German: unbedachtsam, unbesonnen (de), unüberlegt (de)
• Greek: αδιάκριτος (el) (adiákritos)

• Hebrew: לא דיסקרטי‎ m (lo diskréti)
• Hungarian: indiszkrét (hu), tapintatlan (hu)
• Irish: béalsceiteach
• Italian: indiscreto (it)
• Japanese: 軽率 (ja) (keisotsu)
• Maori: mākahi, manawarere
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: indiskret, ublu (no), nærgående

• Portuguese: indiscreto (pt), imprudente (pt)
• Russian: нескро́мный (ru) (neskrómnyj), неблагоразу́мный (ru) (neblagorazúmnyj)
• Spanish: indiscreto (es), imprudente (es)
• Swedish: indiskret (sv), oblyg (sv)

Anagrams

• cretinised, indiscrete, iridescent

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

indiscreet (comparative indiscreter, superlative indiscreetst)

1. indiscreet

Inflection

Inflection of indiscreet
uninflected	indiscreet
inflected	indiscrete
comparative	indiscreter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		indiscreet	indiscreter	het indiscreetst het indiscreetste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	indiscrete	indiscretere	indiscreetste
	n. sing.	indiscreet	indiscreter	indiscreetste
	plural	indiscrete	indiscretere	indiscreetste
definite		indiscrete	indiscretere	indiscreetste
partitive		indiscreets	indiscreters	—