INDISCRIMINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indiscriminate mean? 

• INDISCRIMINATE (adjective)
  The adjective INDISCRIMINATE has 2 senses:

1. failing to make or recognize distinctions

2. not marked by fine distinctions

  Familiarity information: INDISCRIMINATE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDISCRIMINATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Failing to make or recognize distinctions

Similar:

indiscriminating; undiscriminating (not discriminating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not marked by fine distinctions

Context example:

an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles

Similar:

promiscuous (not selective of a single class or person)

sweeping; wholesale (ignoring distinctions)

Also:

indiscriminating; undiscriminating (not discriminating)

general (applying to all or most members of a category or group)

Antonym:

discriminate (marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions)

 Context examples 

Caveolins may allow tighter control and integration of multiple signal transduction pathways to reduce indiscriminate cross-talk.

(Caveolin 1, NCI Thesaurus)

The young clerk flushed with pleasure at this chorus of praise, rude and indiscriminate indeed, and yet so much heartier and less grudging than any which he had ever heard from the critical brother Jerome, or the short-spoken Abbot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)