Indiscriminate

Definitions: Indiscriminate

Indiscriminate

Adjective

1. Failing to make or recognize distinctions.

2. Not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles".

Date "indiscriminate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Antonym: discriminate (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disorder	Immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; (see arrange; ); confused; deranged; topsy-turvy; (inverted); shapeless; disjointed, out of joint.
Indiscrimination	Adjective: indiscriminate; undistinguished, indistinguishable, undistinguishable; unmeasured; promiscuous, undiscriminating.
Intention	Random, indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected; aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose.
Mixture	Adjective: mixed; Verb: implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous; motley; (variegated); miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate; miscible.
Multiformity	Adjective: polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous, multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne; and what not? de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Indiscriminate

English words defined with "indiscriminate": battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, butcher ♦ indiscriminately ♦ Paneulogism, promiscuity, promiscuously, promiscuousness ♦ sleeping around. (references)

Specialty definitions using "indiscriminate": Handkerchiefs ♦ Partner ♦ Sea Foam, September Massacres ♦ Tops. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Beyond the Welfare State: An Economic, Political, and Moral Critique of Indiscriminate State Welfare, and a Review of Alternatives to Dependency (reference) Indiscriminate (reference) Indiscriminate Tolerance: The American Trojan Horse (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The industry term for the indiscriminate ability of generators and suppliers to "rent" transmission and distribution lines is "open access," and in Korea the issue of open access could prove problematic. (references)
Economic History	Russia	Government forces have killed numerous civilians through the use of indiscriminate force in Chechnya. (references)
	El Salvador	The poorly trained Salvadoran Armed Forces (ESAF) also engaged in repression and indiscriminate killings. (references)
	Belize	This period also was marked by piracy, indiscriminate logging, and sporadic attacks by Indians and neighboring Spanish settlements. (references)
Human Rights	Algeria	Armed groups continued to be responsible for numerous, indiscriminate killings. (references)
	Colombia	Indiscriminate attacks on police stations resulted in high numbers of civilian casualties. (references)
	Philippines	The CHR also issued an advisory noting reports of indiscriminate arrests and detentions in Basilan. (references)
Political Economy	Indonesia	TNI personnel often responded with indiscriminate violence after physical attacks on soldiers. (references)
	Colombia	Paramilitary groups and guerrillas committed the great majority of abuses which included massacres, targeted assassinations, indiscriminate attacks on civilians, torture, and kidnapping. (references)
	Sudan	As part of the civil war, the Government has engaged in a program of high altitude, indiscriminate bombing of southern areas, particularly in the states of Equatoria, Western Upper Nile, and the Nuba Mountains. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Indiscriminate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indiscriminate" is used about 202 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	202	21,454

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "indiscriminate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i rrëmujshëm (disheveled, dishevelled, disorderly, hugger mugger, pell mell, rambunctious, rampageous, rough and tumble, topsy turvy), që nuk bën dallim. (various references)

Arabic		‏غير مميز (indistinctive, promiscuous), ‏بالصدفة (accidentally, casual, fortuitously, haply, passing, random), ‏بدون قصد (unintentionally). (various references)

Bulgarian		който не разграничава, който не подбира, безсистемен (discursive, hit-and-miss, promiscuous, systemless, unsystematic), безразборен (promiscuous, sweeping, tumultuary, undiscriminated). (various references)

Chinese		不� 区别. (various references)

Czech		nevybíravý, nerozlišující, nekritický (uncritical). (various references)

Danish		konvention om unødigt skadevoldende vaben (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects). (various references)

Dutch		Verdrag inzake het verbod of de beperking van het gebruik van bepaalde conventionele wapens die geacht kunnen worden buitensporig leed te veroorzaken of een niet-onderscheidende werking te hebben (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects), Verdrag inzake het verbod of de beperking van het gebruik van bepaalde conventionele wapens die geacht kunnen worden buitensporig leed te veroorzaken of een niet onderscheidende werking te hebben (Convention on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects), Dubieuze-Wapensverdrag (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects), Conventionele-Wapensverdrag (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects). (various references)

Farsi		یکسره (All, Altogether, Hipandthigh, Nonstop), ناشی ازعدم تبعیض , خالی ازتبعیض . (various references)

French		sans distinction, distribué au hasard, distribué � travers, distribué � tort, commis au hasard. (various references)

German		wahllos (aleatory, at random, haphazardly, haply, indiscriminately, miscellaneously, random). (various references)

Greek		άνευ διακρίσεωσ, αντιμετοποιώ χωρίσ διακρίσεισ. (various references)

Hebrew		שאי� ו מבחין. (various references)

Hungarian		válogatás nélküli (promiscuous). (various references)

Indonesian		tak pandang bulu. (various references)

Italian		indiscriminato, promiscuo (promiscuous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		所嫌わず (anywhere, everywhere, no matter where), 滅多矢鱈 (reckless). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		めったやたら (reckless), と�"ろきらわず (anywhere, everywhere, no matter where). (various references)

Korean		무차별. (various references)

Manx		neulhiettrimagh, hoal as wass (to and fro). (various references)

Norwegian		vilkårlig, kritikkløs. (various references)

Pig Latin		indiscriminateay

Portuguese		leviandade (escapade, levity). (various references)

Romanian		nediscriminat, fãrã selecţie, fãrã alegere. (various references)

Russian		смешанный (crossbred, cross-bred, farraginous, impure, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixing up, mongrel), неразборчивый (cramped, illegible, indecipherable, niggling, undecipherable, undiscriminating, unintelligible, unreadable, unscrupulous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nerazličit (indistinctive), nasumce rađen, koji ne pravi razlike. (various references)

Spanish		indistinto (dim, faint, indistinct, undistinguishable, unemphatic, unexplicit, vague), indisctinto, sin indistinción, hacer sin distinción, falto de discernimiento, ciego (blind, blind person, blinding, caecum, cecum, coecum, mask, purblind, sightless, unseeing). (various references)

Swedish		inte utpräglad, virrig (confused, desultory, dizzy, featherbrained, featherheaded, featherpated, helter-skelter, jumbly, muddled, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, rambling, scatter-brained, scatty, screwed up), urskillningslös, slumpartad (chance, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, random), rörig (confused, higgledy-piggledy, jumbly, messy, muddled, topsy turvy, turbid), okritisk (indiscriminating, uncritical), godtycklig (arbitrary, capricious, discretionary, fortuitous, just any, random). (various references)

Turkish		rasgele (aimlessly, at a venture, at haphazard, at random, by chance, desultory, freehand, haphazard, haphazardly, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, offhand, promiscuous, random, scratch, stray, wild), gelişigüzel (at haphazard, at random, by chance, by fits and starts, casual, cursory, desultory, excursive, go-as-you-please, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, promiscuous, random, scratch, scratchy), fark gözetmeyen, ayrım yapmayan, ayırt edemeyen. (various references)

Ukranian		неперебірливий, безладний (amorphous, disorderly, dropping, excursive, harum scarum, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, hurly burly, ill disposed, inordinate, meandering, messy, orderless, outward, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, rambling, scrappy, shapeless, topsy turvy, tumultuary). (various references)

Vietnamese		không phân biệt (indiscriminative), bừa bãi (disorderly, indiscriminative, messy, promiscuous, ungoverned). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	promiscuarum, promiscuum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "indiscriminate": indiscriminately, indiscriminateness, indiscriminatenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Indiscriminate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indeiscriminate, indicriminate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "indiscriminate" (pronounced i'nduskri"munut)
5	-m u n u t	effeminate, geminate, indeterminate, innominate, laminate.
4	-u n u t	affectionate, baronet, bicarbonate, cabinet, compassionate, coordinate, definite, diaconate, dispassionate, disproportionate, extortionate, fortunate, indefinite, infinite, inordinate, obstinate, passionate, proportionate, sultanate, unfortunate.
3	-n u t	alternate, Bennet, bluebonnet, bonnet, electromagnet, ferromagnet, garnet, granite, hornet, incarnate, magnate, magnet, minute, peanut, Pinot, planet, rennet, senate, Sennet, tenet, unit.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-i-i-m-n-n-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: discriminant, discriminate, incendiarism, incriminated, incriminates.
	-3 letters: incriminate, manneristic, rancidities.
	-4 letters: acridities, administer, caninities, carnitines, criminated, criminates, dieticians, intimacies, matricides, mendicants, minacities, mistrained.
	-5 letters: acidities, acridines, actinides, aminities, andesitic, animistic, anticrime, aridities, armistice, cannister, carnitine, citrinins, cretinism, criminate, diametric, dicentras, dietician, inanities, incidents, indamines, indicants, indicates, indicters, instanced, intrinsic, mannerist, matricide, mendicant, meridians, miscreant, misdirect.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-i-i-m-n-n-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: indiscriminately.
	+4 letters: decriminalizations, indiscriminateness.
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