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🎯 With careful selection 🚫 With unfair bias
discriminately

discriminately

7.0
In a careful way that shows good judgment when choosing people or things
  • adverb
  • /dɪsˈkrɪməˌneɪtli/
translation icon : selectivamente
  • She chose her friends discriminately, valuing honesty and loyalty above all else.

Examples

  • She chose her words discriminately.

  • Resources were distributed discriminately, ensuring that only the most urgent cases received assistance.

  • The scholarship was awarded discriminately to students who demonstrated both need and academic excellence.

  • The committee reviewed applications discriminately to ensure fairness.

  • When organizing the charity event, she chose the guests discriminately to ensure a productive discussion.

  • The chef selects ingredients discriminately, opting for only the freshest produce available each season.

  • The teacher graded the assignments discriminately, giving more points for originality and effort.

Synonyms

selectively
vsdiscriminately
27 4.2

In a careful way that chooses only some people or things

emphasizes judgment and careful distinction rather than mere choosing
discriminatingly
vsdiscriminately
7.7

Uses careful judgment to notice small differences and choose good quality

is about selective choice rather than judging fine quality
discerningly
vsdiscriminately
6.1

In a way that shows good judgment when choosing people or things

leans more toward selective choice than deep insight

Antonyms

indiscriminately
22 6.7

Doing things without careful choice or noticing differences

How Selective

judiciously
7 6.5
discriminately
7.0
selectively
27 4.2
generally
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

discriminately positive

Morphology

discriminately = discriminate (transparent) = discriminate + ly

Standard adverbial formation from 'discriminate' + '-ly'; the meaning 'in a discriminating/selective manner' follows directly from the verb/adjective sense.

Etymology

Discriminately comes from an old idea of 'separating' things so you can choose the best. Think of the simple word separate — to act discriminately is to sort and pick carefully, so it means making careful, selective judgments.