Another word for discriminate | Synonyms for discriminate

Another word for discriminate

discriminate Synonyms

discriminate

v.

To differentiate
distinguish, specify, separate, tell apart; see distinguish 1. See syn. study at distinguish.
To be prejudiced
show partiality, prejudge, be biased, be a bigot, set apart, segregate, victimize; see also favor 2, hate 1, separate 2.

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Another word for discriminate

verb

To recognize as being different:
differentiate, discern, distinguish, know, separate, tell. See same
To make noticeable or different:
characterize, differentiate, distinguish, individualize, mark, set apart, signalize, singularize. See same

adjective

Able to recognize small differences or draw fine distinctions:

discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, select, selective. See precise

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If she was qualified, why should he discriminate against his daughter?
It is unethical to discriminate against people because of their culture or gender.
Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.
A pharmacy act, which was passed in 1852, established a distinction between registered and examined, and unregistered and unexamined chemists and druggists, creating a register of the former under the name of pharmaceutical chemists, so that the public might discriminate between the two classes.
However this may be, it would always be possible, with the aid of a grating of given resolving power, to construct artificially from white light mixtures of slightly different wave-length whose resolution or otherwise would discriminate between powers inferior and superior to the given one.3 2 Compare also F.

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