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that I was fired. 2 secondary, incidental, ancillary,<br />

collateral, accidental, side, subordinate, subsidiary,<br />

accessory, additional, accidental, adscititious, adventitious:<br />

An indirect effect of winning the prize was an offer of more<br />

work.<br />

indiscreet<br />

adj. imprudent, tactless, incautious, impolitic, undiplomatic,<br />

improvident, injudicious, ill-advised, ill-judged,<br />

ill-considered, rash, reckless, audacious, bold, temerarious,<br />

impulsive, hasty, impetuous, thoughtless, insensitive, heedless,<br />

careless, unthinking, mindless, unwise, na‹ve, foolish,<br />

foolhardy: Your reference to her plastic surgery was indiscreet<br />

to say the least.<br />

indiscretion<br />

n. 1 imprudence, tactlessness, improvidence, injudiciousness,<br />

rashness, recklessness, audacity, boldness, temerity,<br />

impulsiveness, hastiness, haste, impetuousness, impetuosity,<br />

thoughtlessness, insensitivity, heedlessness, carelessness,<br />

na‹vety, foolishness, foolhardiness, folly: He was guilty of<br />

indiscretion in talking to the press about the confidential<br />

report. 2 blunder, error, mistake, slip, lapse, misstep, gaffe,<br />

faux pas, peccadillo, Colloq boner, Brit bloomer: He spent much<br />

of his adult life paying for the indiscretions of his youth.<br />

indiscriminate<br />

adj. 1 undiscriminating, unselective, unparticular, uncritical,<br />

undiscerning, careless, promiscuous, random: Viola seems<br />

indiscriminate in her choice of companions. 2 confused,<br />

haphazard, unorganized, chaotic, disorganized, jumbled,<br />

disordered, disarranged, scrambled, mixed-up, casual, random,<br />

unsystematic, unsystematized, uncoordinated, unmethodical,<br />

wholesale, erratic, Colloq higgledy-piggledy: The Aztecs were<br />

victims of indiscriminate slaughter at the hands of the<br />

conquistadors.<br />

indispensable<br />

adj. 1 crucial, vital, essential, urgent, imperative,<br />

necessary, needed, needful, required, requisite, demanded, in<br />

demand, called-for, of the essence, important, compelling: A<br />

good television manner is indispensable in a national leader<br />

these days. 2 key, unavoidable, inescapable, ineluctable,

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