undiscreet

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adjective

Indiscreet.

First used 14th–17th c.Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveundiscreet (comparative more undiscreet, superlative most undiscreet)

comparative more undiscreet · superlative most undiscreet

  1. obsoleteIndiscreet.First known use 14th–17th c.

    Mammon wexing wroth, And why then, said, / Are mortall men so fond and vndiscreet, / So euill thing to seeke vnto their ayd […]?

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    For these causes Plutarch[…]gives a most especial charge to all parents, and many good cautions about bringing up of children, that they be not committed to undiscreet, passionate, bedlam tutors […].

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection ii

Origin

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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