Adjective: indiscrete
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | indiscreter |
| Superlative | indiscretest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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an indiscrete mass of confused matter [1782, Thomas Pownall, A Treatise on the Study of Antiquities:]
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and amidst these perplexities I did resolve to proceed , if that they would be so indiscrete , as not to disclaim those two books [1670 May 18, Henry Stubbe, letter to Robert Boyle:]
Adjectives inflected like indiscrete
scarce,
smoove,
sombre,
wholsome,
sheene,
bolshie,
baroque,
concrete,
seveare,
comf'table,
shrewde,
'umble,
grislie,
unsubtle,
ungentle,
indiscrete,
couthie,
chavvie,
lissome,
cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin indiscrētus (“unseparated”). See also indiscreet.