/ ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnət; NAmE / adjective
1.
an indiscriminate action is done without thought about what the result may be, especially when it causes people to be harmed :
indiscriminate attacks on motorists by youths throwing stones
Doctors have been criticized for their indiscriminate use of antibiotics.
2.
acting without careful judgement :
She's always been indiscriminate in her choice of friends.
► in·dis·crim·in·ate·ly adverb :
The soldiers fired indiscriminately into the crowd.
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WORD ORIGIN
late 16th cent. (in the sense haphazard, not selective ): from in- not + Latin discriminatus , past participle of discriminare (from discrimen distinction, from the verb discernere , from dis- apart + cernere to separate).