What does indiscriminately mean?
Definitions for indiscriminately
in·dis·crim·i·nate·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy-nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which wayadverb
in a random manner
"the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"
promiscuously, indiscriminatelyadverb
in an indiscriminate manner
"she reads promiscuously"
Wiktionary
indiscriminatelyadverb
In an indiscriminate manner.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Indiscriminatelyadverb
Without distinction.
Etymology: from indiscriminate.
Others use defamatory discourse purely for love of talk, whose speech, like a flowing current, bears away indiscriminately whatever lies in its way. Government of the Tongue.
Liquors, strong of acid salts, destroy the blueness of the infusion of our wood; and liquors indiscriminately, that abound with sulphureous salts, restore it. Boyle.
ChatGPT
indiscriminately
Indiscriminately refers to an act performed randomly or within no set exclusionary parameters. It's used to describe actions done without making thoughtful decisions, without care, partiality, or preference, often resulting in lack of order or distinction.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of indiscriminately in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of indiscriminately in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of indiscriminately in a Sentence
It's obviously a crime of hate. Again, we don't know the rationale, but what other rationale could there be? You're sort of lost that somebody could walk into a Bible study in a church and indiscriminately kill people, this is one of those situations where you just have to take a step back and say we — you know, you talk about the importance of prayer in this time and we're now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we've never seen before. It's a time for deeper reflection beyond this horrible situation.
The Russian army fights dirty. Look at the carnage in Syria and you ’ll have an idea of what the Kremlin is capable of in Ukraine, we’re already seeing reports that Russian forces are indiscriminately attacking civilian areas across the country, and we simply ca n’t expose our people to that risk.
The international community must not consider Hamas’s platform as a change in policy for the movement, which in reality works every day to indiscriminately murder Jews and Israelis while exploiting Gaza's civilian population as a human shield.
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other.
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