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Discreet vs Whom - What's the difference?

discreet | whom |

As an adjective discreet

is respectful of privacy or secrecy; quiet; diplomatic.

As a pronoun whom is

what person or people; which person or people, as the object of a verb.

discreet

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Respectful of privacy or secrecy; quiet; diplomatic.
    • With a discreet gesture, she reminded him to mind his manners.
    John just doesn't understand that laughing at Mary all day is not very discreet .
  • Not drawing attention, anger or challenge; inconspicuous.

    • Usage notes

    * Do not confuse with discrete .

    Derived terms

    * discreetly * discretion

    Anagrams

    * ----

    whom

    English

    (wikipedia whom)

    Alternative forms

    * whome (obsolete)

    Pronoun

    (en-pron)
  • What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a verb.
  • *
  • What person or people; which person or people, as the object of a preposition.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom , even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
  • *
  • Him; her; them (used as a relative pronoun to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke
  • *

    • Usage notes

    (Usage examples) Subject (always who ): : Who ate my sandwich? : There is the thief who ate my sandwich. :: i.e. The thief ate my sandwich. Direct object: : Who(m) did you see? : I saw an old friend who(m) I had not seen for years. :: i.e. I saw an old friend . Indirect object: : Who(m) are you giving your apple to? : She is the angel who(m) I'm giving my apple to. :: or : To whom are you giving your apple?'' (fronted prepositional phrase, almost always ''whom ) : She is the angel to whom I'm giving my apple. :: i.e. I'm giving my apple to her .

    Derived terms

    * to whom it may concern * to whom this may concern * whomever * whom're

    Statistics

    * English interrogative pronouns English relative pronouns