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indiscriminative

indiscriminative adjective: making no distinction; not discriminating; indiscriminate.

Adjective

indiscriminative (comparative more indiscriminative, superlative most indiscriminative)

  1. 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
  2. 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

comparativemore indiscriminative
superlativemost 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

  1. indiscriminateness
  2. indiscriminating
  3. indiscriminatingly
  4. indiscrimination
  5. indiscriminations
  6. indiscriminative
  7. indiscriminatively
  8. indiscriminatorily
  9. indiscriminatory
  10. indiscussable
  11. indiscussed

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