unselective

English

Etymology

un- + selective

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛktɪv

Adjective

unselective (not comparable)

  1. Not selective; open and inclusive.
    • 1951 May, “Railway and the Exhibitions of 1851 and 1951”, in Railway Magazine, page 300:
      The 1851 Exhibition was international and unselective; the 1951 exhibitions, however, will be entirely British.
    • 2007 February 28, Alan Finder, “A Fighter for Colleges That Have Everything but Status”, in New York Times:
      “I’m preaching the virtues of the unselective small colleges, the ones that are inclusive rather than exclusive,” Mr. Pope said in an interview at his apartment in a retirement community here in the suburbs of northern Virginia.
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