undiscriminating
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6.9
- adjective
- /ˌʌndɪˈskrɪməˌneɪtɪŋ/
:
indiscriminado
- His undiscriminating taste in music made him enjoy everything from classical to pop without any real preference.
Examples
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This effect is a sort of the opposite of what I called Gollumization earlier this year: unthinking, undiscriminating consumption to the point that consumption defines you.
Blog text (1) -
How can one not value the lives of their own loved ones for such undiscriminating, inflexible, outdated, and hermetic beliefs?
Blog text (5) -
Her taste in movies also marks her as an uneducated and undiscriminating consumer.
Academic text (2016) -
Unsponsored and thus seemingly untainted by commercial concerns, the Workshop presented difficult plays appealing to a limited audience rather than to the undiscriminating masses.
Academic text (2016) -
Then there is the undiscriminating, ultra-conventional conformist, avoiding any distinctive judgments.
Academic text (1993) -
There was a frazzled, undiscriminating energy about Pippa, and five weeks earlier, when she'd come to audition with a meal, he'd looked at the leather jacket and the Day-Glo orange hair, and wondered if she was on drugs.
Fiction book (1998) -
With regard to the objection that this dehumanizes Jesus, Fred Crowe made the wry comment some years ago that the Hebrews text, like us in all things but sin, tends to be put to use in a farouche and undiscriminating way.
Academic text (1990) -
Ah, what a beautiful illustration of the completely open mind—utterly undiscriminating, lacking any criteria for acceptance, simply blissfully and uncritically according every idea his full respect.
Blog text (4) -
Bosman identified virtually the same problems in the South African literary context: subservience to British literature, provincially undiscriminating criticism, and a literary context hostile to fostering good local literature.
Academic text (1993) -
He believed that "undiscriminating charity ... is worse than none at all," because it "degrades and pauperizes where true help should aim at raising the sufferer to self-respect and self-dependence."
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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7.2
Happening without careful choice of people or things
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7.9
Not able to notice small differences or make careful decisions
Not careful when choosing people or things
Accepting many different kinds without choosing between them
Not choosing carefully and not preferring one kind over another
Antonyms
How Discriminating
Surface Forms
Morphology
undiscriminating = discriminating (transparent) = un + discriminate + ing
The adjective 'discriminating' (discriminate + -ing) is negated by the productive prefix 'un-', yielding the clear opposite meaning.
Etymology
Undiscriminating begins with un- meaning 'not', and the rest comes from the root discriminate, which means 'to tell apart' and is like the familiar word discern. So an undiscriminating person does not 'see differences' and often does not make good choices.