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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

undiscreet en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + discreet.

Meanings

  1. (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

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most undiscreet Degree=Sup lexicographic
more undiscreet Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

undiscreetness · undiscreetly