adv
Meaning 1
In an indiscriminate manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
indiscriminately
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 N D IH0 S K R IH1 M AH0 N AH0 T L IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adverb
Meaning 2
in a random manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the houses were randomly scattered
- bullets were fired into the crowd at random
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: randomly, haphazardly, willy-nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in an indiscriminate manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she reads promiscuously
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: promiscuously
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English indiscriminate Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English indiscriminately From indiscriminate + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: անխտրաբար (anxtrabar) — in an indiscriminate manner
- Catalan: indiscriminadament — in an indiscriminate manner
- Dutch: lukraak — in an indiscriminate manner
- Dutch: zonder onderscheid — in an indiscriminate manner
- Finnish: harkitsematta — in an indiscriminate manner
- Finnish: harkitsemattomasti — in an indiscriminate manner
- French: sans distinction — in an indiscriminate manner
- French: à tort et à travers — in an indiscriminate manner
- French: indistinctement — in an indiscriminate manner
- German: wahllos — in an indiscriminate manner
- German: willkürlich — in an indiscriminate manner
- German: unkritisch — in an indiscriminate manner
- German: querbeet — in an indiscriminate manner
- German: ohne Unterschied — in an indiscriminate manner
- Italian: indiscriminatamente — in an indiscriminate manner
- Kazakh: бас-көз демей (bas-köz demei) — in an indiscriminate manner
- Kazakh: алды-артына қарамай (aldy-artyna qaramai) — in an indiscriminate manner
- Kazakh: бас-көзсіз (bas-közsız) — in an indiscriminate manner
- Polish: bezkrytycznie — in an indiscriminate manner
- Spanish: indiscriminadamente — in an indiscriminate manner