Selective and Unselective

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Selective adjective - Tending to select carefully.

Usage example: we were highly selective about the music we listened to while trying out loudspeakers

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Unselective is an antonym for selective in topics: particular, discriminating.

Unselective adjective - Not selective or discriminating.

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Selective is an antonym for unselective in random topic.

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