undiscreet en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + discreet.
Meanings
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(obsolete) Indiscreet.
For these causes Plutarch[…]gives a most especial charge to all parents, and many good cautions about bringing up of children, that they be not committed to undiscreet, passionate, bedlam tutors […].
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection ii:Mammon wexing wroth, And why then, said, / Are mortall men so fond and vndiscreet, / So euill thing to seeke vnto their ayd […]?
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most undiscreet | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more undiscreet | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |