Meaning of INDISCREET
Pronunciation: | | `indi'skreet
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| Definition: | | [adj] lacking discretion; injudicious; "her behavor was indiscreet at the very best" |
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| Synonyms: | | bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby, imprudent, talkative |
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| Antonyms: | | discreet | |
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| Definition: | | Indiscreet Description not available. more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \In`dis*creet"\, a. [OE. indiscret, F. indiscret, fr.
L. indiscretus unseparated, indiscreet. See {In-} not, and
{Discreet}, and cf. {Indiscrete}.]
Not discreet; wanting in discretion.
So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. --Shak.
Syn: Imprudent; injudicious; inconsiderate; rash; hasty;
incautious; heedless; undiscerning; foolish. --
{In`dis*creet"ly}, adv. -- {In`dis*creet"ness}, n.
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| Related Terms: | | audacious, blanket, bold, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, careless, casual, foolhardy, foolish, general, hasty, heedless, hubristic, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, improper, improvident, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, inadvisable, inappropriate, incautious, inconsiderate, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, inelegant, inexpedient, injudicious, insensate, insensitive, insolent, irrational, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, naive, nonjudgmental, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, promiscuous, rash, reasonless, reckless, senseless, shortsighted, tactless, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unbecoming, unchary, unconsidered, uncritical, uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiplomatic, undiscerning, undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting, unfastidious, unforeseeing, unmeticulous, unparticular, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unseemly, unselective, unsensible, unsound, unsubtle, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwary, unwise, wholesale, witless |
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