Promiscuous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Promiscuous \Pro*mis"cu*ous\, a. [L. promiscuus; pro before, in
     place of, for + miscere to mix. See {Mix}. ]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without
        order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a
        promiscuous crowd or mass.


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              A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot.
                                                    --Pope.
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     2. Distributed or applied without order or discrimination;
        not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate;
        as, promiscuous love or intercourse.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  promiscuous
       adj 1: not selective of a single class or person; "Clinton was
              criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of
              campaign money"
       2: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy
          virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women";
          "wanton behavior" [syn: {easy}, {light}, {loose}, {sluttish},
           {wanton}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  197 Moby Thesaurus words for "promiscuous":
     Paphian, abandoned, aimless, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent,
     amoral, amorphous, amphibious, assorted, blanket, blended, botched,
     bungling, capricious, careless, casual, causeless, chambering,
     chaotic, clumsy, combined, complex, composite, compound,
     compounded, confused, conglomerate, cursory, dappled, debauched,
     deficient, depraved, designless, desultory, disarticulated,
     discontinuous, dishonorable, disjunct, disordered, disorderly,
     disorganized, dispersed, disproportionate, disregardful,
     dissipated, dissolute, driftless, dysteleological, easy, eclectic,
     equivocal, erratic, faithless, fast, fifty-fifty, fitful, formless,
     frivolous, general, gratuitous, half-and-half, half-assed,
     haphazard, heedless, helter-skelter, heterogeneous,
     higgledy-piggledy, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, immethodical,
     immoderate, immoral, imprudent, inchoate, incoherent, indecent,
     indifferent, indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative,
     inexplicable, insensitive, intermingled, intermixed, intricate,
     ironic, irregular, irresponsible, jumbled, lax, libertine,
     licentious, light, loose, loose-moraled, many-sided, meaningless,
     medley, messy, mindless, mingled, miscellaneous, misshapen, mixed,
     motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial,
     neglectful, negligent, nonjudgmental, nonsymmetrical,
     nonsystematic, nonuniform, of easy virtue, of loose morals,
     orderless, patchy, perfunctory, planless, pluralistic, profligate,
     purposeless, random, scrambled, senseless, shapeless, slack,
     slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, spasmodic,
     sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray, syncretic,
     systemless, tactless, thoughtless, thrown together, unaccountable,
     unarranged, unbridled, uncaring, unchaste, unclassified,
     unconscientious, unconsidered, uncontrolled, uncritical,
     uncriticizing, uncurbed, undemanding, undifferentiating,
     undirected, undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative,
     unexacting, unfaithful, unfastidious, unfussy, ungoverned,
     ungraded, uninhibited, unjoined, unmethodical, unmeticulous,
     unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unparticular, unplanned,
     unrestrained, unselective, unsorted, unsubtle, unsymmetrical,
     unsystematic, untactful, unthinking, untidy, ununiform, vague,
     varied, wandering, wanton, wayward, wholesale, whorish, wild