indiscreet

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English discreet

English indiscreet

From in- + discreet.

indiscreet (comparative indiscreeter, superlative indiscreetest)

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, →OCLC, 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.

In modern, standard English spelling, indiscreet (meaning “conspicuous” or “incautious”) is not to be confused with indiscrete (“not divided into discrete parts”).

not discreet; wanting in discretion — see also imprudent

indiscreet (comparative indiscreter, superlative indiscreetst)

Declension 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	—