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discriminantly

discriminantly adverb: in a discriminant manner.

Adverb

discriminantly (comparative more discriminantly, superlative most discriminantly)

  1. In a discriminant manner.
    • And when you start thinking of sports that way, as being about anything that fits or just anything instead of being about a game played on a field someplace, thats when its easy to start thinking of other things less discriminantly: of sports as an arm of the entertainment industry, of the field or...2007 October 28, Richard Ford, “The Noise Is Killing Me”, in New York Times

Forms of discriminantly

comparativemore discriminantly
superlativemost discriminantly

Origin of discriminantly

From discriminant + -ly.

Questions about discriminantly

What does discriminantly mean?
Discriminantly means in a discriminant manner.
What part of speech is discriminantly?
Discriminantly is an adverb.

Words near discriminantly in the dictionary

  1. discriminancy
  2. discriminant
  3. discriminant function
  4. discriminant functions
  5. discriminantal
  6. discriminantly
  7. discriminants
  8. discriminatable
  9. discriminate
  10. discriminated
  11. discriminated-against

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