Dictionary Definition
indiscretion
Noun
1 the trait of being injudicious [syn: injudiciousness]
2 a petty misdeed [syn: peccadillo]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The quality or state of being indiscreet; want of discretion; imprudence; rashness.
- An indiscreet or imprudent act; indiscreet behavior.
Translations
Want of discretion
- French: indiscrétion
- Romanian: discreţie
Indiscreet act
- Finnish: hairahdus
- French: indiscrétion
- Romanian: discreţie
References
Extensive Definition
"Indiscretion" is an episode of
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the fifth episode of the fourth
season. It introduces the character Tora Ziyal,
the half-Bajoran daughter of
Gul
Dukat, and marks the first appearance of the Breen.
Plot
Major Kira
learns that there might be survivors from the Cardassian ship
Ravinok. She hopes for the particular survival of a good friend
thought lost on the ship. Dukat also learns of this and goes with
Kira to the Dozaria system, where the survivors were captured by
the Breen and forced to work on a mining operation. Dukat hopes to
find his former mistress. They land and find several graves, one of
which contains the body of Dukat's former lover. They continue on,
infiltrating the camp, where Kira finds her friend had been dead
for some time. In the end, they rescue Tora Ziyal,
Dukat's daughter.
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memoryalpha IndiscretionSynonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absurdity, act of folly,
atrocity, audacity, babbling, betrayal, blabbering, blabbing, bloomer, blunder, boldness, boner, botch, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, breach, bungle, callowness, carelessness, casualness, cheek, childishness, chutzpah, communication leak,
crime, crime against
humanity, crudity of intellect, dead giveaway, deadly sin, delinquency, dereliction, divulgation, divulgement, divulgence, divulging, dumb trick,
enormity, error, evil, evulgation, failure, fault, faux pas, felony, folly, foolhardiness, foolishness, gaffe, gall, genocide, giveaway, guilty act, haste, hastiness, heavy sin, heedlessness, heroics, hubris, immaturity, impetuosity, impetuousness, impropriety, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, impulsiveness, inadvisability, inappropriateness,
inattention,
inconsideration,
indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, indiscreetness, indiscriminateness,
indiscrimination,
inelegance, inelegancy, inexpedience, inexpiable
sin, iniquity, injudiciousness,
injury, injustice, insensibility, insensitivity, insolence, irrationality, lack of
feeling, lack of refinement, lapse, leak, letting out, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misstep, mistake, mortal sin, naivety, nonfeasance, obvious clue,
offense, omission, outrage, overboldness, overcarelessness,
overconfidence,
oversureness,
overweeningness,
peccadillo, peccancy, pompousness, promiscuity, promiscuousness,
puerility, rashness, reasonlessness, recklessness, senselessness, sin, sin of commission, sin of
omission, sinful act, slip,
solecism, sottise, stuffiness, stupid thing,
stupidity, syncretism, tactlessness, telltale, telltale sign,
temerariousness,
temerity, thoughtlessness,
tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unchariness, unchastity, uncriticalness, undiscriminatingness,
undiscriminativeness,
unfastidiousness,
unintelligence,
unmeticulousness,
unparticularness,
unpreciseness,
unreason, unreasonableness,
unseemliness,
unselectiveness,
unsensibleness,
unsoundness,
untactfulness,
unthoughtfulness,
unutterable sin, unwariness, unwisdom, unwise step, unwiseness, unwitting
disclosure, venial sin, witlessness, wrong