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discriminatingly

discriminatingly

7.7
Uses careful judgment to notice small differences and choose good quality
  • adverb
  • /dɪˈskrɪməˌneɪtɪŋli/
translation icon : discriminatoriamente
  • The chef tastes the ingredients discriminatingly to ensure the perfect balance of flavors in each dish.
  • choose more discriminatingly

Examples

  • It holds that human collectivities choose more complexly and discriminatingly as they come to know and understand more.

    Academic text (1990)
  • I believe that there are many ways in which we can learn to feel better, more deeply, more discriminatingly, more precisely; and many ways in which others can help us in that learning.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Colonialism brought the various groups together within the modern state but kept them apart and introduced modernization selectively and discriminatingly, especially between the North and the South.

    Academic text (1998)
  • I concluded in Parts III and IV that the issuer nationality approach is superior to the current U.S. approach to statutory reach because it selects more discriminatingly which among the world's issuers have disclosure practices that affect primarily the welfare of U.S. residents and which primarily the welfare of residents of other countries.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Behind that simple foreign word, to those who speak and think in English, stood a long-overdue effort by the Catholic Church to deal seriously and discriminatingly with a culture created in the West by the Enlightenment, economic and political revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the development of natural and human sciences, and the secularization and pluralization of society.

    Academic text (2013)
  • She chose her clothing discriminatingly, favoring unique designs that reflected her personal style.

  • He read the reviews discriminatingly, looking for the most trustworthy opinions before making a decision.

Synonyms

selectively
vsdiscriminatingly
27 4.2

In a careful way that chooses only some people or things

focuses on judging quality and telling subtle differences between things
discerningly
vsdiscriminatingly
6.1

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

focuses more on careful judgment and distinguishing quality differences
discriminately
vsdiscriminatingly
7.0

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

emphasizes judging subtle quality differences rather than mere selection

Antonyms

Doing things without careful choice or noticing differences

How Discerning

fastidiously
2 7.7
discriminatingly
7.7
perceptively
1 5.8

Surface Forms

discriminatingly positive
discriminatinglyer comparative
discriminatinglyest superlative

Morphology

discriminatingly = discriminating (transparent) = discriminate + ing + ly

The adverb is formed by adding the standard adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'discriminating' (itself the participial/adjectival form of 'discriminate'), so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Discriminatingly comes from the verb discriminate and is related to discern, which means 'to see or tell the difference'. So to act discriminatingly is to choose carefully and notice small differences in quality.