an indiscriminate action is done without thought about what the result may be, especially when it causes people to be harmed 随意的；恣意的；不加选择的 indiscriminate attacks on motorists by youths throwing stones 年轻人乱扔石头袭击驾车的人 the indiscriminate nature of nuclear weapons 核武器的滥杀性质 Doctors have been criticized for their indiscriminate use of antibiotics. 医生被指责滥用抗生素。
Extra ExamplesThe indiscriminate use of pesticides is now banned. 现在禁止滥用杀虫剂。 The newspaper denounced the indiscriminate firing by the police. 该报指责警方胡乱开枪。
acting without careful judgement 不加分析的；不加判断的
Word Originlate 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’).