Thesaurus:promiscuous man
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Noun
Sense: man who frequently changes sexual partners
Synonyms
- benedick
- cad (obsolete, pejorative)
- drabber (obsolete)
- fuck boy (pejorative, vulgar, slang)
- fuck-boy (pejorative, vulgar, slang)
- fuckboy (pejorative, vulgar, slang)
- gallant (approbative)
- goat (pejorative)
- he-bitch (pejorative)
- himbo (pejorative)
- homme fatal
- horndog (informal)
- loverboy
- loverman
- man ho (pejorative, slang, Canada, US)
- man whore (pejorative, vulgar, slang)
- man-whore (pejorative, vulgar, slang)
- manslut (pejorative, vulgar, slang)
- manwhore (pejorative, vulgar, slang)
- muttonmonger (obsolete, pejorative)
- philanderer (pejorative)
- pimp [⇒ thesaurus] (pejorative)
- playboy (approbative)
- player (approbative)
- rakehell (archaic, pejorative)
- rake (dated, pejorative)
- rip (dated, pejorative)
- rolling stone (slang)
- salty dog
- satyriasist (pejorative)
- satyromaniac (pejorative)
- satyr (pejorative)
- shag bandit (pejorative, Britain, slang)
- sleaze (pejorative)
- smell-smock (obsolete)
- striker (obsolete)
- stringer (obsolete)
- stud (approbative)
- swordsman (informal)
- tart (pejorative)
- tomcat (informal)
- whoremonger (pejorative)
Archetypes
Antonyms
- promiscuous woman [⇒ thesaurus]
- vamp [⇒ thesaurus]
- —
- celibate [⇒ thesaurus]
- virgin [⇒ thesaurus]
Hyponyms
- Of a heterosexual man
- gay dog (dated, colloquial)
- ladies' man (approbative)
- lady's man (approbative)
- lady killer (approbative, colloquial)
- lady-killer (approbative, colloquial)
- ladykiller (approbative, colloquial)
- pussyman (colloquial)
- skirt chaser (idiomatic)
- skirt-chaser (idiomatic)
- wencher (uncommon)
- womaniser
- womanizer
- Other
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
See also
Further reading
- “962. libertine” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.