indiscriminate

Etymology

From Latin in- + discriminatum, past participle of discriminare (“to divide”). Compare crime.

adj

  1. Without care or making distinctions, thoughtless.
    How can anyone be so indiscriminate in making friends as he is?
    An animal so indiscriminate in its eating habits that it eats coal, boat cushions, and tomtoms, would be only too eager to taste a swimmer or a diver—which must look more edible than an unopened can of salmon. 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 126

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