indiscriminate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Latin in- + discriminatum, past participle of discriminare (“to divide”). Confer crime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.dɪsˈkɹɪm.ɪn.ət/

Adjective

indiscriminate (comparative more indiscriminate, superlative most indiscriminate)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• promiscuous

Derived terms

• indiscriminately

Translations

Without care or making distinctions, thoughtless

• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: безразборен (bg) (bezrazboren), безсистемен (bg) (bezsistemen)
• Catalan: indiscriminat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盲目 (zh) (máng mù)瞎眼 (zh) (xiā yǎn)饥不择食 (zh) (jī bù zé shí)不分青红皂白 (zh) (bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái)

• Finnish: (of a person) harkitsematon (fi), sokea (fi), arvostelukyvytön, (of an action) harkitsematon (fi), umpimähkäinen (fi), sokea (fi), silmitön (fi)
• French: indiscriminé (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: unüberlegt (de), wahllos (de), willkürlich (de), gedankenlos (de)
• Italian: indiscriminato (it)
• Japanese: 無差別 (musabetsu)
• Latin: promiscuus
• Spanish: indiscriminado, desconsiderado (es)
• Swedish: oaktsam (sv), urskillningslös

---

Italian

Adjective

indiscriminate f pl

1. feminine plural of indiscriminato