Antonyms for undiscerning
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : dih-sur-ning, -zur- |
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɜr nɪŋ, -ˈzɜr- |
- attentive
- aware
- careful
- caring
- cautious
- concerned
- conscious
- considerate
- controlled
- critical
- cunning
- discriminating
- formal
- fussy
- heedful
- heeding
- important
- intelligent
- interested
- kind
- looking
- mindful
- noticing
- observant
- open
- prudent
- quick
- rational
- reasonable
- responsible
- revealed
- seeing
- sensible
- sensitive
- sharp
- sighted
- thinking
- thoughtful
- uncovered
- understanding
- unselfish
- wise
Definition of undiscerning
Origin :- "action of perceiving," late 14c., verbal noun from discern. As a present participle adjective, attested from c.1600.
- As in inattentive : adj negligent, not paying attention
- As in oblivious : adj unaware, ignorant
- As in thoughtless : adj absent-minded, unobservant
- As in uncritical : adj casual, unfussy
- As in blind : adj sightless
- As in blind : adj indifferent
- As in purblind : adj blind
- As in uncomprehending : adj blind
- As in unperceptive : adj blind
- As in unseeing : adj blind
- For the undiscerning eyes of the boy were blind to the feet of clay.
- Extract from : « The Promise » by James B. Hendryx
- But the undiscerning were not only to be kept quiet, they were to be made happy.
- Extract from : « Evolution, Old & New » by Samuel Butler
- They are the notebooks of an omnivorous but indiscreet and undiscerning reader.
- Extract from : « Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study » by Edward Hutton
- She was a mother of high ideals and she was not undiscerning.
- Extract from : « Tom Slade » by Percy K. Fitzhugh
- Spiritually they are undiscerning, because imaginatively they are blind.
- Extract from : « The Soul of the Far East » by Percival Lowell
- Life isn't a story-book or we who live it undiscerning clods.
- Extract from : « Ben Blair » by Will Lillibridge
- Yet, undiscerning as she was, she was puzzled about her daughter's happiness.
- Extract from : « Wife in Name Only » by Charlotte M. Braeme (Bertha M. Clay)
- They had the undiscerning look of one whose mind is numbed, as hers might well be.
- Extract from : « Lore of Proserpine » by Maurice Hewlett
- Sir George, that angel, who deserved the first monarch in the universe, to be cast off by an undiscerning dolt!
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph » by Frances Sheridan
- Ye scorn him with an undiscerning scorn; Ye cannot read the marvel in his eye, The still serene abstraction.
- Extract from : « Alfred Tennyson » by Andrew Lang
Synonyms for undiscerning
- absent
- absentminded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- amaurotic
- amnesic
- apathetic
- blind
- blind as a bat
- blundering
- bored
- bovine
- careless
- confused
- cursory
- dark
- deaf
- destitute of vision
- disregardful
- distracted
- distrait
- distraught
- diverted
- doltish
- dreamy
- dull
- easily pleased
- empty-headed
- eyeless
- faraway
- flighty
- foolish
- forgetful
- forgetting
- gone
- groping
- heedless
- ignorant
- ill-advised
- ill-considered
- imperceptive
- imprecise
- imprudent
- in darkness
- inaccurate
- inadvertent
- inane
- inattentive
- incognizant
- incomprehensible
- inconsiderate
- inconversant
- indifferent
- indiscriminate
- inept
- injudicious
- inobservant
- insensible
- insensitive
- irrational
- irreflective
- lamebrained
- listless
- loony
- lost
- mindless
- musing
- myopic
- nearsighted
- neglectful
- negligent
- not all there
- oblivious
- obtuse
- off-guard
- offhand
- out to lunch
- overlooking
- perfunctory
- preoccupied
- puerile
- purblind
- rapt
- rash
- reckless
- regardless
- remiss
- removed
- scatterbrained
- senseless
- shallow
- sightless
- silly
- slipshod
- spacey
- strung out
- stupid
- superficial
- thoughtless
- typhlotic
- unacquainted
- unaware
- uncomprehending
- unconcerned
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- undiscriminating
- unexacting
- unfamiliar
- unheeding
- uninformed
- uninstructed
- unknowing
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unobserving
- unperceiving
- unperceptive
- unreasonable
- unreasoning
- unrecognizing
- unreflective
- unseeing
- unselective
- unsighted
- unthinking
- unwatchful
- unwitting
- vacuous
- vague
- visionless
- witless
- zonked
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