EGAVE

promiscuous

About 0.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
  2. adjective Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
    A sail caught by a promiscuous wind.
  3. adjective Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
  4. adjective The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

Similar words

easy loose wanton sluttish indiscriminate light unchaste dirty motley hodge-podgey

Often followed by

and intercourse sexual sex mode use in or behavior

Word family

promiscuously promiscuousness promiscuousnesses

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