Meanings
- not comparableindiscriminate
He had played the part of Lord Bountiful ungrudgingly and with indiscriminating liberality.
1842, Edgcumbe Staley, The Tragedies of the Medici2 more examples
I have heard two reasons suggested for this indiscriminating application of punishment to the innocent and to the culpable.
1892, George Saintsbury, Political PamphletsSocialism, which is curiously confounded by the indiscriminating with Anarchism, is its exact opposite.
1905, Stratton D. Brooks, Composition-Rhetoric
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot discriminating
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Cite this entry
indiscriminating. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indiscriminating
“indiscriminating.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indiscriminating. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “indiscriminating,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indiscriminating.
Source: indiscriminating on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.