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Antonyms for undiscriminating


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dih-skrim-uh-ney-ting
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈskrɪm əˌneɪ tɪŋ



Definition of undiscriminating

Origin :
  • "possessing discernment," 1792, present participle adjective from discriminate (v.).
  • As in indiscriminate : adj random, chaotic
  • As in promiscuous : adj indiscriminately sexually active
  • As in uncritical : adj casual, unfussy
  • As in gross : adj crude, vulgar
Example sentences :
  • He had never before revealed this thirst for undiscriminating homage.
  • Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman
  • It is easy to blame us as undiscriminating, but we are at least full of zest.
  • Extract from : « This Simian World » by Clarence Day
  • To reply to the charge in its undiscriminating, blunderbuss form is easy.
  • Extract from : « Religion and the War » by Various
  • He was not a strong or undiscriminating advocate for Compulsory Education.
  • Extract from : « Matthew Arnold » by G. W. E. Russell
  • But Bob Needham spoke from the depths of his honest and undiscriminating soul.
  • Extract from : « The Gay Cockade » by Temple Bailey
  • For the governing faculty of a bad man is faithless, unsettled, undiscriminating, successively vanquished by different semblances.
  • Extract from : « The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece » by Various
  • I have not spared his faults; I am no eulogist, to paint a man with undiscriminating praise.
  • Extract from : « Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 2 (of 3) » by Theodore Parker
  • And the rector was pleased, especially as it was not all undiscriminating praise.
  • Extract from : « A Country Gentleman and his Family » by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
  • Indiscriminate blame is as bad as undiscriminating praise—it only makes a man tired.
  • Extract from : « Old Gorgon Graham » by George Horace Lorimer
  • The young are at the mercy of all sorts of flesh-eaters, including their own fathers, who are a most undiscriminating sort.
  • Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work » by Mary Rogers Miller

Synonyms for undiscriminating

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