indiscriminating
Definition
- 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.
Adjective
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not discriminating
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