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Indiscriminate
indiscriminate
If you describe an action as indiscriminate, you are critical of it because it does not involve any careful thought or choice. The indiscriminate use of fertilisers is damaging to the environment. ? selective ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval • indiscriminately The men opened fire indiscriminately... ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
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adjective Date: circa 1598 1. a. not marked by careful distinction ; deficient in discrimination and discernment ~ reading habits ~ mass destruction b. haphazard, random ~ application of a law 2. a. promiscuous, unrestrained ~ sexual behavior b. heterogeneous, motley an ~ collection • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 making no distinctions. 2 confused, promiscuous. Derivatives indiscriminately adv. indiscriminateness n. indiscrimination n. indiscriminative adj. Etymology: IN-(1) + discriminate (adj.) f. L discriminatus past part. (as DISCRIMINATE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. неразборчивый; не проводящий различия, огульный indiscriminate reader —- неразборчивый читатель 2. смешанный, беспорядочный indiscriminate mass —- беспорядочная масса ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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arrests повальные аресты INDISCRIMINATE slaughter поголовное истребление (животных и т.п.) INDISCRIMINATE adj. 1) неразборчивый, не делающий различий; огульный - indiscriminate arrests - indiscriminate slaughter 2) беспорядочный, смешанный ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 indiscriminate killing, violence, damage etc is done without any thought about who is harmed or what is damaged (the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians) 2 not thinking carefully before you make a choice - indiscriminately adv ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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