indiscriminating

Thân thiện

A tourist takes an indiscriminating photo of the entire crowded market.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Not making careful distinctions; lacking discrimination or selectivity: The word describes an approach, action, or person that does not differentiate or choose carefully between things, often resulting in a broad, unselective, or haphazard manner.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The critic was accused of being indiscriminating in his praise, liking every single performance.
  • An indiscriminating collector will buy any stamp, regardless of its condition or rarity.
  • Her reading habits were indiscriminating; she consumed everything from classic literature to cheap magazines.

Advanced Usage

• Used to describe a lack of critical judgment: Often implies a failure to apply standards or make qualitative distinctions.
  • The algorithm's indiscriminating data collection raised significant privacy concerns.
• Can describe a broad, all-encompassing acceptance or rejection: Suggests an action applied equally to all without consideration for individual differences.
  • The policy of indiscriminating budget cuts harmed both efficient and inefficient departments equally.

Variants and Related Words

• Indiscriminate (adj): The more common form, meaning done at random or without careful judgment. (e.g., ).
• Indiscriminately (adv): In an indiscriminate manner. (e.g., ).
• Undiscriminating (adj): A direct synonym, meaning not making fine distinctions.

Synonyms

• Unselective: Not involving selection based on quality.
• Undiscriminating: Lacking the ability to recognize or perceive differences in quality.
• Broad-brush: Treating various groups or things as the same without acknowledging differences (often used before a noun, e.g., ).

Antonyms

• Discriminating: Showing good judgment or taste; able to perceive fine distinctions.
• Selective: Characterized by careful choice.
• Discerning: Having or showing good judgment.

Related Phrases/Idioms

• "Indiscriminating taste": A phrase describing a person who likes or accepts a very wide range of things without apparent preference for quality.
  • With his indiscriminating taste in food, he was happy to eat at either a gourmet restaurant or a fast-food joint.
• "Indiscriminating use of": A common collocation highlighting the unselective application of something (e.g., power, resources, force).
  • The indiscriminating use of antibiotics contributes to drug resistance.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. not discriminating

Từ đồng nghĩa

• undiscriminating