discriminately
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Distinctly; In a manner that perceives or exhibits differences.
adv
In a discriminating manner; showing discerning taste or judgement.
Example Sentences
- "Apparently, young children do not need higher-order concepts, or theory, to understand intentional states discriminately."
- ".A similar point holds for o₂—which, though indiscriminable from o₁, is discriminately less blue than o_(new)."
- "The hypothesis is that in the end, the interplay of activation and decay will cause just a few areas to be discriminately more activated than others, thus identifying the predominant knowledge items, which can then be interpreted as the main concepts – the topics – present in the text."
- "In a recent study, babies under 15 months were all found to respond discriminately to the name of one person (e.g., Mommy) and one-half responded discriminately to the name of an object (e.g., blanket) without contextual cues or gestures (Miller, Chapman, Branston, & Reichle, 1980)."
- "Behind the tall-backed and elaborately wrought chairs, stand the servants, men and maidens—fifteen in number—discriminately selected, not only with a view to their industry and faithfulness, but with special regard to their personal appearance, their graceful agility and captivating address."
- "And the next car that passes we look at more closely and discriminately. We know something about automobiles and we could have one, too, if we were contented with a two-cylinder car like that. Or, as the impatience becomes greater, "That's four cylinders; but didn't that two-cylinder go almost as well?" and we can have the two-cylinder car right now."
Etymology
From discriminate + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more discriminately (comparative)
most discriminately (superlative)