Synonyms for discriminate
dɪˈskrɪm əˌneɪt; -nɪtdis·crim·i·nate

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1. discriminateverb

   The central idea of withdrawing makes abstract in common speech a euphemism for appropriate (unlawfully), purloin, steal. In mental processes we discriminate between objects by distinguishing their differences; we separate some one element from all that does not necessarily belong to it, abstract it, and view it alone. We may separate two ideas, and hold both in mind in comparison or contrast; but when we abstract one of them, we drop the other out of thought. The mind is abstracted when it is withdrawn from all other subjects and concentrated upon one, diverted when it is drawn away from what it would or should attend to by some other interest, distracted when the attention is divided among different subjects, so that it can not be given properly to any. The trouble with the distracted person is that he is not abstracted. Compare DISCERN.

   Synonyms:
   abstract, appropriate, detach, distinguish, distract, divert, eliminate, purloin, remove, separate, steal, take away, withdraw

   Antonyms:
   add, combine, complete, conjoin, fill up, increase, restore, strengthen, unite

   Preposition:
   The purse may be abstracted from the pocket; the substance from the accidents; a book into a compend.

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1. discriminateverb

   marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions

   "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people"

   Antonyms:
   indiscriminate, promiscuous, wholesale, sweeping

2. discriminate, know apartverb

   recognize or perceive the difference

   Synonyms:
   know apart, separate, single out

   Antonyms:
   sweeping, promiscuous, indiscriminate, wholesale

3. discriminate, separate, single outverb

   treat differently on the basis of sex or race

   Synonyms:
   divide, assort, carve up, know apart, separate, come apart, fork, classify, secern, sort out, dissever, differentiate, class, part, break, disunite, severalise, furcate, fall apart, severalize, secernate, break up, split up, split, sort, distinguish, tell apart, tell, branch, single out, ramify

   Antonyms:
   promiscuous, indiscriminate, wholesale, sweeping

4. discriminateverb

   distinguish

   "I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish"

   Synonyms:
   know apart, separate, single out

   Antonyms:
   promiscuous, sweeping, wholesale, indiscriminate

Matched Categories

1. • Discern

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1. discriminateverb

   Synonyms:
   distinguish, mark the difference between

2. discriminateverb

   Synonyms:
   distinguish, make a distinction, note differences, judge nicely or accurately

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1. List of paraphrases for "discriminate":

   discriminated, discriminatory, discrimination, discriminates, distinguish, differentiate

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1. Daniel Conkle:

   This 'license-to-discriminate' argument that seems to have this relentless repetition is just legally wrong, it is as if you just keep repeating something often enough it takes on a life of its own.

2. Jaroslaw Kaczynski:

   There are already signs of emergence of diseases that are highly dangerous and have not been seen in Europe for a long time: cholera on the Greek islands, dysentery in Vienna. There is also talk about other, even more severe diseases, also there are some differences related to geography, various parasites, protozoa that are common and are not dangerous in the bodies of these people, (but) may be dangerous here. Which doesn't mean there is a need to discriminate anyone, but you need to check.

3. Joe Neguse:

   It is un-American to discriminate against immigrants solely because of where they come from or how they pray.

4. Andrew McCarthy:

   It violates the law for universities to discriminate according to race, period, the tragedy is that the Supreme Court ever said otherwise. The justices need to fix that.

5. Kanye West:

   People are allowed to say anything about it and discriminate in any way.