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 The mind is abstracted when it is withdrawn from all other subjects and concentrated upon one, diverted when it is drawn away from what it would or should attend to by some other interest, distracted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. Kelly Craft:

   Twenty years on, there remains nothing about the Durban declaration to celebrate or to endorse, It encourages restrictions on the freedom of expression. It exists to divide and discriminate and runs contrary to the laudable goal of combating racism and racial discrimination.

2. Constantino Chiwenga:

   COVID-19 has taught us an important lesson, that we are all mortals. It does not discriminate between the powerful and the weak, the privileged and the deprived, the haves and the have-nots.

3. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson:

   I think there are instances where religious activities are over-regulated, but in my estimation that does not outweigh the chance that somebody uses religion to do what Jesus would not want to be done in his name, which is to discriminate against somebody and offend a brother or sister.

4. Audria Maltsberger:

   When I was in the shelter it wasn’t just poor women. They're all races, all professions. It does not discriminate.

5. 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.