indiscriminate
/ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnət
/adjective
1Done at random or without careful judgement: the indiscriminate use of antibiotics can cause problems...
- The new wave has ratcheted savagery and indiscriminate killing to unthinkable levels.
- Now the attacks are becoming more random, brutal and indiscriminate.
- Algeria became caught in a cycle of violence, which became increasingly random and indiscriminate.
Synonyms
non-selective, unselective, undiscriminating, uncritical, aimless, hit-or-miss, haphazard, random, unsystematic, unmethodical;
wholesale, general, sweeping, blanket;
broad-based, wide, catholic, eclectic, varied, miscellaneous, heterogeneous, motley, confused, chaotic;
thoughtless, unthinking, unconsidered, casual, careless
rare promiscuous
1.1(Of a person) not using or exercising discrimination: she was indiscriminate with her affections
Derivatives
indiscriminateness
- It is due to its indiscriminateness that human sexuality is inherently prone to perversion.
- The screenplay delivers an ambitious epic that is dense in a way that indicates not indiscriminateness but rather the existence of a highly personal internal logic.
- He pondered the increase in indiscriminateness among terrorists, and he posited several possible reasons accounting for this upsurge.
indiscrimination
/ noun ...- I'm not sure my point was about marshalling the judgment of history so much as resisting the indiscrimination of contemporaneity.
- What continues to remain in our mind and memory is the hope for a new dawn of promises, free from atrocities and indiscriminations.
- Centrality, extremism, and indiscrimination all manifest themselves in the assigned raw score standard deviations and rater fit statistics.
Origin
Late 16th century (in the sense 'haphazard, not selective'): from in-1 'not' + Latin discriminatus, past participle of discriminare (see discriminate).