What is "promiscuous" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does promiscuous mean in English? Meaning of promiscuous definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "promiscuous" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "promiscuous": not selective of a single class or person

Adjective

  • Meaning: not selective of a single class or person
  • Example: Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money
  • Synonyms: promiscuous
  • Similar: indiscriminate
  • Meaning of "promiscuous": casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

    Adjective

  • Meaning: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
  • Example: her easy virtue he was told to avoid loose (or light) women wanton behavior
  • Synonyms: easy light loose promiscuous sluttish wanton
  • Similar: unchaste
  • Adjective: Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition. 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 379-80 Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof. 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 1 they had both been educated […] on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 379-80 Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 1 they had both been educated […] on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.(networking) The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
  • Synonyms:

    wanton, immoral, profligate, abandoned, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, easy, fast, indiscriminate, lax, libertine, licentious, loose, pushover, unbridled, unrestricted, wild, unchaste, of easy virtue, oversexed, undiscriminating,

    Antonyms:

    moral, careful, chaste, nice, good, cold, cool, frigid,

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    promiscuous in English: promiscuous
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