Word Meanings - INDISCRIMINATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Making no distinction; not discriminating.
Related words: (words related to INDISCRIMINATIVE)
- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - DISCRIMINATENESS
The state of being discriminated; distinctness. - DISCRIMINATOR
One who discriminates. - DISTINCTION
1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - DISCRIMINATELY
In a discriminating manner; distinctly. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - DISCRIMINATE
Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens. Bacon. (more info) divide, separate, fr. discrimen division, distinction, decision, fr. - MAKEWEIGHT
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap. - DISCRIMINATING
Marking a difference; distinguishing. -- Dis*crim"i*na`ting*ly, adv. And finds with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black; -- nor white so very white. Canning. - MAKE-BELIEVE
A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold. - MAKARON
See 2 - DISCRIMINATION
The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service. A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination. A. T. Hadley. 4. The quality of being discriminating; - MAKING-UP
1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly. - DISCRIMINATIVELY
With discrimination or distinction. J. Foster. - MAKI
A lemur. See Lemur. - MAKE-BELIEF
A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman. - DISCRIMINATIVE
1. Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic. That peculiar and discriminative form of life. Johnson. 2. Observing distinctions; making differences; discriminating. "Discriminative censure." J. Foster. "Discriminative - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - INDISTINCTION
Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n. - VLISSMAKI
The diadem indris. See Indris. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - ROADMAKER
One who makes roads.