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Webster 1913 Edition
Promiscuous
1.
Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished;
as, a
. promiscuous
crowd or massA wild, where weeds and flowers
promiscuous
shoot. Pope.
2.
Distributed or applied without order or discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate;
as,
. promiscuous
love or intercourseWebster 1828 Edition
Promiscuous
PROMIS'CUOUS
,Adj.
1.
Mingled; consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; confused; undistinguished; as a promiscuous crowd or mass. A wild where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot.
2.
Common; indiscriminate; not restricted to an individual; as promiscuous love or intercourse.Definition 2024
promiscuous
promiscuous
English
Adjective
promiscuous (comparative more promiscuous, superlative most promiscuous)
- 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
- 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
- See also Wikisaurus:promiscuous man
- See also Wikisaurus:promiscuous woman
- (made up of various disparate elements): motley
Derived terms
Translations
made up of various disparate elements mixed together
made without careful choice; indiscriminate
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indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners
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being in a mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic
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