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Adjective discriminate has 2 senses
- discriminate, discriminating - marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people"
Antonyms: indiscriminate, promiscuous, sweeping, wholesale
- discriminate, nice - noting distinctions with nicety; "a discriminating interior designer"; "a nice sense of color"; "a nice point in the argument"
Antonyms: undiscriminating, indiscriminating (indirect, via discriminating)
Verb discriminate has 3 senses
- discriminate, know apart - recognize or perceive the difference
--1 is one way to distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- discriminate, separate, single out - treat differently on the basis of sex or race
--2 is one way to distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
=> Somebody ----s
=> Somebody ----s PP
- discriminate - distinguish; "I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish"
--3 is one way to recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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