Meaning

Making no distinction; not discriminating; indiscriminate..

Definitions by Sense

1. Making no distinction; not discriminating; indiscriminate.
2. (grammar) Specifying any one from among several equivalent possibilities.

Example Sentences

To operationalize generalized trust, we focus on the level of indiscriminative trust among individuals.

The other sect, the indiscriminative sect, resembled Daoism in that the emphasis was on the equality of things. As with Daoism, which advocated an all-embracing attitude toward different positions existing in the world, the indiscriminative equalizer reinterpreted seeming divergent phenomena or positions as merely the result of different perspectives.

Furthermore, since those changes are responses to new stimuli in the environment, and since every kind of new stimuli or alteration in the environment could trigger such changes, learning is indiscriminative of the normative qualities of objective contents.

False-negative indiscriminative studies are often caused by placebo effects.

Indiscriminative uses of FCIs are common across languages and they have a pejorative flavor.

We discuss free choice phenomena in detail in Section 6.7, but here it is important to note that the Greek D-universal, but not káthe, has the so-called indiscriminative reading (Horn 2000) that appears in English with just any.

It is thus possible to assume that the indiscriminative interpretation and the evaluative interpretation (Eval) are related.

Word Forms

• more indiscriminative
• most indiscriminative

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When Should You Use Indiscriminative?

Use indiscriminative when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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