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What is the adjective for discriminatory?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb discriminate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

discriminating
  1. Able to perceive fine distinctions between similar things; perceptive
  2. Having a discerning judgment or taste
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  4. Examples:
    1. “My comments are those of an occasional patient, a discriminating consumer, and a visual critic.”
      “He has a discriminating taste in music, always seeking out unique and obscure bands.”
discriminative
  1. which has the ability to discriminate between things; or which imparts such ability
  2. (of an element, feature, attribute, etc.) which serves to distinguish its bearer
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I am very discriminative when it comes to what I eat and consume.”
      “Departmental goals are likely to be long term, but can often be broken down into subgoals that retain potent discriminative qualities.”
      “Rule-governed behavior is operant behavior in which discriminative control or other behavioral influence does come from verbal antecedents.”
discriminatory
  1. Of or pertaining to discrimination (in all senses).
  2. Showing prejudice or bias.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “This discriminatory decision by the Department can only be seen as an attempt to punish Maryland farmers for voting to remove acreage allotment controls for their crops.”
      “Current statutes prohibiting blatantly discriminatory practices must be aggressively enforced.”
      “We can look to the discriminatory attitudes of some consumers as an explanation for disparities in the ranks of workers who work directly with the public.”
discriminal
  1. Involved in discrimination.
  2. (palmistry) Applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.
discriminable
  1. That can be discriminated or distinguished from others
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Hence, as in other frogs, the fundamental frequency of advertisement calls is a reliable and discriminable signal of male body size in bullfrogs.”
      “Do these differences correlate with the length of the list of discriminable behavior states?”
      “Myths may be grouped in three discriminable cycles reflecting three different periods of time at various removes from the present.”
discriminate
discriminantal
  1. (mathematics) Relating to a discriminant.
discriminant
  1. Serving to discriminate.
discriminated
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