Indiscreet

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           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.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indiscreet
       adj : lacking discretion; injudicious; "her behavor was indiscreet
             at the very best" [ant: {discreet}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "indiscreet":
     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