Definition of "nonspecifically" [nonspecifically]

• In a nonspecific manner (adverb)

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• "These substances act nonspecifically, meaning they wipe out almost every type of microbe in sight—fungi, bacteria and some viruses—rather than singling out a particular variety."
• "If sea bacteria could synthesize a drug to block kinases nonspecifically, then surely a team of chemists could make a drug to block only certain kinases in cells."
• "There was a British mandate to nonspecifically divide the territory into Arab and Jewish states."