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Indiscreet definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDISCREE'T, a. [in and discreet.] Not discreet; wanting in discretion; imprudent; inconsiderate; injudicious; as persons.
1. Not according to discretion or sound judgment; as indiscreet behavior.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking discretion; injudicious; "her behavior was indiscreet at the very best" [ant: discreet]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English indiscrete, from Late Latin indiscretus, from Latin, indistinguishable, from in- + discretus, past participle of discernere to separate — more at discern Date: 15th century not discreet ; imprudent <an indiscreet comment> • indiscreetly adverb • indiscreetness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not discreet; revealing secrets. 2 injudicious, unwary. Derivatives: indiscreetly adv. Etymology: ME f. LL indiscretus (as IN-(1), DISCREET)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Indiscreet 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as indiscreet, you mean that they do or say things in public which they should only do or say secretly or in private. He is notoriously indiscreet about his private life... ? discreet ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Imprudent, injudicious, unwise, inconsiderate, foolish, rash, incautious, reckless, heedless, headlong.

Moby Thesaurus

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