discriminate

1. 1.

   marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions

   “discriminate judgments”

   “discriminate people”

   Antonymsindiscriminate

Other forms of discriminate

past tense

discriminated·

present participle

discriminating·

third person

discriminates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about discriminate

What does discriminate mean?

discriminate means "recognize or perceive the difference". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in discriminate?

discriminate has 4 syllables: di-scrim-i-nate. The stress falls on "scrim". In IPA it is /dɪˈskɹɪməˌneɪt/.

What is another word for discriminate?

Close synonyms include know apart, separate, single out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of discriminate?

The recorded antonyms are indiscriminate.

Is discriminate a common word?

discriminate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with discriminate?

52 words rhyme with discriminate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.