promiscuous
/pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs/
promiscuous adjective: made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
Adjective
promiscuous (comparative more promiscuous, superlative most promiscuous)
- Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
- Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- [T]hey 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.1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 4
- Synonyms:
- motley
- Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
- A sail caught by a promiscuous wind.
- Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
- X spreads false rumours to third parties about X’s spouse being promiscuous. X’s spouse finds out about the rumours and is distressed. X has committed emotional or psychological abuse against X’s spouse.2023, Parliament of Singapore, “Women’s Charter (Family Violence and Other Matters) (Amendment) Bill”, in Republic of Singapore Government Gazette, archived from the original on 10 May 2023, page 5
- The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
promiscuous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
promiscuous in Tamil
- கண்டபடி பாலுறவு வைத்துக்கொள்தல், கலத்தல், கற்புநெறியின்மை
promiscuous in Urdu
- اندھادھند, بےتک, بلافرق
promiscuous in Bengali
- অবাছাইকৃত, বাছবিচারহীন
promiscuous in Malayalam
- sexually indiscri-minate, licentious, wanton
- വിഷയാസക്തി കൂടുതലുള്ള, പലരുമായി ലെെംഗികബന്ധങ്ങളുള്ള, ഭോഗാസക്തിമുഴുത്ത, ദുർന്നടത്തയുള്ള, കാമാസക്തമായ, സ്ത്രീണ
- indiscriminate, undiscriminating, unselective
- ക്രമരഹിതമായ, താറുമാറായ, സമ്മിശ്രമായ, നാനാവിധമായ, വിവേചനാരഹിതമായ, കുത്തഴിഞ്ഞ
More languagesFewer languages
- promiscuous in Kannada
- ಬೆರಕೆಯ, ಕಟ್ಟಲೆ ತಪ್ಪಿದ, ಸ್ವಚ್ಛಂದ ಲೈಂಗಿಕತೆಯ, ವಿಷಯ ಲಂಪಟನಾದ
- promiscuous in Tagalog
- handalapak
- promiscuous in Thai
- ร่าน râan
Examples of promiscuous in a sentence
- Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue.
- Meyer, in turn, offered a chaste variation on the promiscuous bloodsuckers of Anne Rice.
- As form withers we are left with a directionless, transitory, indeterminate, promiscuous, and repressive space.
Synonyms of promiscuous
Antonyms
Forms of promiscuous
| comparative | more promiscuous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most promiscuous |
Origin of promiscuous
From Latin prōmiscuus (“mixed, not separated”), from prō (“forth”) + misceō (“mix”).
Words formed from promiscuous
Questions about promiscuous
- What does promiscuous mean?
- Promiscuous means made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
- What is promiscuous in Tamil?
- Promiscuous in Tamil is கண்டபடி பாலுறவு வைத்துக்கொள்தல், கலத்தல், கற்புநெறியின்மை. See Promiscuous meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is promiscuous?
- Promiscuous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce promiscuous?
- Promiscuous is pronounced /pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs/.
Words near promiscuous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: promiscuous (page history and authors); promiscuous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); promiscuous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); promiscuous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); promiscuous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); promiscuous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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