Meanings
comparative more indiscriminately · superlative most indiscriminately
- In an indiscriminate manner.
It was a very private thing, they felt, and not to be tossed indiscriminately about.
1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 781 more example
Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335Synonyms: wholesale
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn an indiscriminate manner.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin a random manner
adverbin an indiscriminate manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan indiscriminadament
- indiscriminadamentin an indiscriminate manner
Dutch lukraak, zonder onderscheid
- lukraakin an indiscriminate manner
- zonder onderscheidin an indiscriminate manner
Finnish harkitsematta, harkitsemattomasti
- harkitsemattain an indiscriminate manner
- harkitsemattomastiin an indiscriminate manner
French indiscriminément, indistinctement
- indiscriminémentin an indiscriminate manner
- indistinctementin an indiscriminate manner
- sans distinctionin an indiscriminate manner
- à tort et à traversin an indiscriminate manner
German wahllos, willkürlich
- wahllosin an indiscriminate manner
- willkürlichin an indiscriminate manner
- unkritischin an indiscriminate manner
- querbeetin an indiscriminate manner
- ohne Unterschiedin an indiscriminate manner
Italian indiscriminatamente
- indiscriminatamentein an indiscriminate manner
Polish bezkrytycznie
- bezkrytyczniein an indiscriminate manner
Portuguese indiscriminadamente
- indiscriminadamentein an indiscriminate manner
Spanish indiscriminadamente
- indiscriminadamentein an indiscriminate manner
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