Promiscuous

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  • adjective. Having casual sexual relations frequently with different partners; indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Lacking standards of selection; acting without careful judgment; indiscriminate.
  • adjective. Showing little forethought or critical judgment; casual.
  • adjective. Consisting of diverse, unrelated parts or individuals; confused.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of parts or individuals grouped together without order; mingled indiscriminately; confused.
  • Forming part of a mingled or confused crowd or mass.
  • Distributed or applied without order or discrimination; common; indiscriminate; not restricted to one individual: as, promiscuous sexual intercourse.
  • Casual; accidental.
  • Synonyms Promiscuous, Miscellaneous. Promiscuous emphasizes the complete lack of arrangement; miscellaneous the throwing together of different kinds. Hence we speak of promiscuous, but not of miscellaneous, confusion; of miscellaneous, not promiscuous, articles in a magazine. A work-bag contains a miscellaneous collection of things, which should never be allowed to become promiscuous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished.
  • adjective. Distributed or applied without order or discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
  • adjective. Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
  • adjective. Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
  • adjective. The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
  • adjective. not selective of a single class or person
  • Word Usage
    "WILLENBRING: That's what we call a promiscuous molecule, because it's very small and it goes all over the brain and it affects multiple nerve systems."
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