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；不加選擇的 indiscriminate attacks on motorists by youths throwing stones 年輕人亂扔石頭襲擊駕車的人 the indiscriminate nature of nuclear weapons 核武器的濫殺性質 Doctors have been criticized for their indiscriminate use of antibiotics. 醫生被指責濫用抗生素。
Extra ExamplesThe indiscriminate use of pesticides is now banned. 現在禁止濫用殺蟲劑。 The newspaper denounced the indiscriminate firing by the police. 該報指責警方胡亂開槍。
acting without careful judgement 不加分析的；不加判斷的
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’).