indiscriminate
adjective/ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnət/
/ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnət/
- an indiscriminate action is done without thought about what the result may be, especially when it causes people to be harmed
- indiscriminate attacks on motorists by youths throwing stones
- the indiscriminate nature of nuclear weapons
- Doctors have been criticized for their indiscriminate use of antibiotics.
Extra Examples- The indiscriminate use of pesticides is now banned.
- The newspaper denounced the indiscriminate firing by the police.
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- acting without careful judgement
- She's always been indiscriminate in her choice of friends.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘haphazard, not selective’): from in- ‘not’ + Latin discriminatus, past participle of discriminare (from discrimen ‘distinction’, from the verb discernere, from dis- ‘apart’ + cernere ‘to separate’).
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