undiscerning

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adjective

Not discerning.

Opposite
Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveundiscerning (comparative more undiscerning, superlative most undiscerning)

comparative more undiscerning · superlative most undiscerning

  1. Not discerning.

    The point here is that many people — including many college students undiscerning of the election's stakes — who assume that this ideology won't touch them will be its victims as well.

    1988 December 18, Jack Ben-Levi, “The Death And Birth Of Families”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 23, page 5

    Synonyms: indiscriminate

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot discerning.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivelacking discernment

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishdiscerning
  9. Englishundiscerning

From un- + discerning.

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APA

undiscerning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undiscerning

MLA

“undiscerning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undiscerning. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undiscerning,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undiscerning.

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