undiscreet

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ discreet.

Adjective

undiscreet (comparative more undiscreet, superlative most undiscreet)

  1. (obsolete) Indiscreet. [14th-17th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      Mammon wexing wroth, And why then, said, / Are mortall men so fond and vndiscreet, / So euill thing to seeke vnto their ayd […]?
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection ii:
      For these causes Plutarch […] gives a most especial charge to all parents, and many good cautions about bringing up of children, that they be not committed to undiscreet, passionate, bedlam tutors […].

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