Indiscriminate \In`dis*crim"i*nate\, a.
Not discriminate; wanting discrimination; undistinguishing;
not making any distinction; confused; promiscuous. "Blind or
indiscriminate forgiveness." --I. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
The indiscriminate defense of right and wrong.
--Junius.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
indiscriminate
adj 1: failing to make or recognize distinctions
2: not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading
habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles"
[ant: discriminate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
159 Moby Thesaurus words for "indiscriminate":
aimless, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amorphous, amphibious,
assorted, blanket, blended, broad, capricious, careless, casual,
causeless, chaotic, combined, complex, composite, compound,
compounded, confused, conglomerate, dappled, designless, desultory,
diffuse, disarranged, disarticulated, discontinuous, disjunct,
disordered, disorganized, dispersed, disproportionate, driftless,
dysteleological, eclectic, equivocal, erratic, extensive,
far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying, far-going,
far-ranging, far-reaching, fifty-fifty, fitful, formless,
frivolous, general, gratuitous, half-and-half, haphazard,
heterogeneous, higgledy-piggledy, hit-or-miss, immethodical,
imprudent, inchoate, incoherent, indiscreet, indiscriminating,
indiscriminative, inexplicable, insensitive, intricate, ironic,
irregular, jumbled, large-scale, liberal, many-sided, meaningless,
medley, mindless, mingled, miscellaneous, misshapen, mixed,
mixed-up, motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational,
multiracial, nonjudgmental, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic,
nonuniform, orderless, patchy, planless, pluralistic, promiscuous,
purposeless, random, scrambled, senseless, shallow, shapeless,
spasmodic, sporadic, spot, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray,
superficial, sweeping, syncretic, systemless, tactless,
thrown together, unaccountable, unarranged, unclassified,
unconsidered, uncritical, uncriticizing, undemanding,
undifferentiating, undirected, undiscerning, undiscreet,
undiscriminated, undiscriminating, undiscriminative,
undistinguishing, unexacting, unfastidious, ungraded, unjoined,
unmethodical, unmeticulous, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized,
unparticular, unplanned, unselective, unsorted, unsubtle,
unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untactful, ununiform, vague, varied,
wandering, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending,
wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widespread
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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