“Indiscriminate” refers to actions or choices done without careful consideration or without making distinctions. It implies a lack of selectivity or discernment, often leading to random, haphazard, or chaotic outcomes.
Sample Sentences:
- The indiscriminate use of pesticides had harmful effects on both targeted and non-targeted organisms.
- The rioters engaged in indiscriminate destruction, damaging property without any specific aim.
- Indiscriminate firing during the battle resulted in civilian casualties.
- The company faced criticism for its indiscriminate disposal of industrial waste, affecting the environment.
- Indiscriminate hiring practices without proper screening led to a decline in the company’s performance.
- The artist’s brushstrokes appeared indiscriminate, lacking a defined pattern or structure.
- The storm caused indiscriminate damage, affecting homes, businesses, and infrastructure.
- The indiscriminate logging in the rainforest led to the loss of diverse plant and animal species.
- The policy of indiscriminate price reductions hurt the company’s profitability.
- The indiscriminate distribution of resources resulted in unequal access to essential services.
Synonyms:
- Random: Acak
- Haphazard: Sembarangan
- Arbitrary: Sewenang-wenang
- Unselective: Tidak selektif
- Chaotic: Kacau
- Unsystematic: Tidak sistematis
- Promiscuous: Sembarangan
- Thoughtless: Tidak berpikir
- Unplanned: Tidak direncanakan
- Reckless: Ceroboh
Antonyms:
- Selective: Selektif
- Discriminating: Diskriminatif
- Thoughtful: Berpikir
- Deliberate: Bersungguh-sungguh
- Systematic: Sistematis
- Targeted: Ditargetkan
- Calculated: Terhitung
- Careful: Hati-hati
- Purposeful: Bertujuan
- Discriminative: Diskriminatif
Derived Words:
- Indiscriminately: Secara sembarangan
- Indiscriminateness: Kebegalasan
- Indiscrimination: Kebegalasan
- Indiscriminatory: Tanpa pemilihan
- Indiscriminative: Tanpa pemilihan
- Indiscriminately: Secara sembarangan
- Indiscrimination: Kebegalasan
- Indiscrimination: Kebegalasan
- Indiscriminate destruction: Penghancuran sembarangan
- Indiscriminate firing: Penembakan sembarangan
Related Words:
- Uncontrolled: Tidak terkendali
- Unregulated: Tidak diatur
- Unrestrained: Tidak terkendali
- Disorderly: Kacau
- Unorganized: Tidak terorganisir
- Unsystematized: Tidak disistematisasi
- Unchecked: Tidak terkendali
- Unmanaged: Tidak dikelola
- Unbridled: Tidak terkendali
- Unchecked: Tidak terkendali
Phrasal Verbs:
- Go about without discrimination: Melakukan tanpa pemilihan
- Act without discrimination: Bertindak tanpa pemilihan
- Carry out indiscriminately: Melakukan secara sembarangan
- Distribute without discrimination: Mendistribusikan tanpa pemilihan
- Use indiscriminately: Menggunakan secara sembarangan
- Apply without discrimination: Menggunakan tanpa pemilihan
- Invest without discrimination: Menginvestasikan tanpa pemilihan
- Spend indiscriminately: Menghabiskan secara sembarangan
- Hire without discrimination: Merekrut tanpa pemilihan
- Trade indiscriminately: Berdagang secara sembarangan
Common Expressions:
- Indiscriminate violence: Kekerasan sembarangan
- Indiscriminate use: Penggunaan sembarangan
- Indiscriminate actions: Tindakan sembarangan
- Indiscriminate approach: Pendekatan sembarangan
- Indiscriminate behavior: Perilaku sembarangan
- Indiscriminate disposal: Pembuangan sembarangan
- Indiscriminate practices: Praktik sembarangan
- Indiscriminate policy: Kebijakan sembarangan
- Indiscriminate treatment: Perlakuan sembarangan
- Indiscriminate allocation: Pemberian alokasi sembarangan
Related Idioms:
- “Throw caution to the wind”: Membuang kehati-hatian
- “Leap before you look”: Melompat sebelum melihat
- “Hit or miss”: Sembarangan
- “Shot in the dark”: Menembak dengan sembarangan
- “Willy-nilly”: Tanpa terencana
- “By the seat of one’s pants”: Tanpa perencanaan yang matang
- “Cut corners”: Memotong sudut
- “In the lap of the gods”: Ditentukan oleh takdir
- “Play fast and loose”: Bermain sembarangan
- “Fly by the seat of one’s pants”: Melakukan sesuatu tanpa persiapan yang matang
