indiscriminative
indiscriminative adjective: making no distinction; not discriminating; indiscriminate.
Adjective
indiscriminative (comparative more indiscriminative, superlative most indiscriminative)
- Making no distinction; not discriminating; indiscriminate.
- To operationalize generalized trust, we focus on the level of indiscriminative trust among individuals.2009, Baogang Guo, Dennis V. Hickey, Toward Better Governance in China, page 56
- The other sect, the indiscriminative sect, resembled Daoism in that the emphasis was on the equality of things. As with Daoism, which advocated an all-embracing attitude toward different positions existing in the world, the indiscriminative equalizer reinterpreted seeming divergent phenomena or...2016, Chih-yu Shih, Po-tsan Yu, Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered, page 37
- Specifying any one from among several equivalent possibilities.
- Indiscriminative uses of FCIs are common across languages and they have a pejorative flavor.1998, Anastasia Giannakidou, Polarity Sensitivity as (non) Veridical Dependency, page 83
- We discuss free choice phenomena in detail in Section 6.7, but here it is important to note that the Greek D-universal, but not káthe, has the so-called indiscriminative reading (Horn 2000) that appears in English with just any.2012, Edward Keenan, Denis Paperno, Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language, page 316
Examples of indiscriminative in a sentence
- The other sect, the indiscriminative sect, resembled Daoism in that the emphasis was on the equality of things.2016, Chih-yu Shih, Po-tsan Yu, Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered, page 37:
- False-negative indiscriminative studies are often caused by placebo effects.2019, Philippe Auby, Clinical Research in Paediatric Psychopharmacology, page 125:
- It is thus possible to assume that the indiscriminative interpretation and the evaluative interpretation (Eval) are related.2021, Determiners and Quantifiers: Functions, Variation, and Change, page 255:
Forms of indiscriminative
| comparative | more indiscriminative |
|---|---|
| superlative | most indiscriminative |
Origin of indiscriminative
From in- + discriminative.
Questions about indiscriminative
- What does indiscriminative mean?
- Indiscriminative means making no distinction; not discriminating; indiscriminate.
- How do you use indiscriminative in a sentence?
- The other sect, the indiscriminative sect, resembled Daoism in that the emphasis was on the equality of things.
- What part of speech is indiscriminative?
- Indiscriminative is an adjective.
Words near indiscriminative in the dictionary
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