promiscuous
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin prōmiscuus (“mixed, not separated”), from prō (“forth”) + misceō (“mix”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /prəˈmɪskjuːəs/
[edit] 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.
- 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, 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.
- "everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them." —Ann Coulter
- (networking) The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
[edit] Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:promiscuous man
- See also Wikisaurus:promiscuous woman
- (made up of various disparate elements): motley
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[edit] Translations
made up of various disparate elements mixed together
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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
[edit] External links
- promiscuous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- promiscuous in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- promiscuous at OneLook Dictionary Search
