INDISCRIMINATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indiscriminately mean? 

• INDISCRIMINATELY (adverb)
  The adverb INDISCRIMINATELY has 2 senses:

1. in a random manner

2. in an indiscriminate manner

  Familiarity information: INDISCRIMINATELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDISCRIMINATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a random manner

Synonyms:

arbitrarily; at random; every which way; haphazardly; indiscriminately; randomly; willy-nilly

Context example:

bullets were fired into the crowd at random

Pertainym:

indiscriminate (not marked by fine distinctions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an indiscriminate manner

Synonyms:

indiscriminately; promiscuously

Context example:

she reads promiscuously

Pertainym:

indiscriminate (not marked by fine distinctions)

 Context examples 

Instead, the same antivenom is used to treat bites by all the ‘big four’ indiscriminately, often with adverse consequences.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

The test also works with dog urine, as dogs are known to indiscriminately eat mushrooms.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

It is not a thing to be used indiscriminately, but it is good upon occasion: as now, for instance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or (smiling) of something else.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned not towards childish pursuits but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)