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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Promiscuous \Pro*mis"cu*ous\, a. [L. promiscuus; pro before, in
     place of, for + miscere to mix. See Mix. ]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without
        order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a
        promiscuous crowd or mass.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot.
                                                    --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Distributed or applied without order or discrimination;
        not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate;
        as, promiscuous love or intercourse.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Promiscuous \Pro*mis"cu*ous\, a. [L. promiscuus; pro before, in
     place of, for + miscere to mix. See Mix. ]
     1. Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without
        order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a
        promiscuous crowd or mass.
  
              A 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 intercourse.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  promiscuous
       adj 1: not selective of a single class or person; "Clinton was
              criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of
              campaign money"
       2: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy
          virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women";
          "wanton behavior" [syn: easy, light, loose, sluttish,
           wanton]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  promiscuous
     a.
     1 Made up of various disparate elements mix#Verb together; of
  disorderly composition.
     2 Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
     3 Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in
  choosing said sexual partners.
     4 (lb en networking) The mode in which an
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20card gather#Verb all network
  traffic#Noun instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  promiscuous
     a.
     1 Made up of various disparate elements mix#Verb together; of
  disorderly composition.
     2 Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
     3 Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in
  choosing said sexual partners.
     4 (lb en networking) The mode in which an
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20card gather#Verb all network
  traffic#Noun instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  promiscuous
     a.
     1 Made up of various disparate elements mix#Verb together; of
  disorderly composition.
     2 Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
     3 Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in
  choosing said sexual partners.
     4 (lb en networking) The mode in which an
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20card gather#Verb all network
  traffic#Noun instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  promiscuous
     a.
     1 Made up of various disparate elements mix#Verb together; of
  disorderly composition.
     2 Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
     3 Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in
  choosing said sexual partners.
     4 (lb en networking) The mode in which an
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20card gather#Verb all network
  traffic#Noun instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  promiscuous
     Engelska a.
     promiskuös

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Promiscuous /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/
  منحلّ، غير أخلاقي

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  promiscuous //pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs// 
  1. разпуснат
  indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners
  2. разнороден
  made up of various disparate elements mixed together
  3. безразборен
  made without careful choice; indiscriminate

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  promiscuous /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/ 
  promiskuitní

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  promiscuous /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/
  promiskuitiv, promisk  [soc.]
           Note: durch häufig wechselnde Geschlechtspartner gekennzeichnet
        "promiscuous behaviour/behavior"  - häufiger Partnerwechsel
   see: be promiscuous
  
           Note: characterized by a frequent change of sexual partners

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  promiscuous //pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs// 
  1. erottelematon, valikoimaton
  being in a mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic
  2. kevytkenkäinen
  indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners
  3. sekalainen
  made up of various disparate elements mixed together
  4. summittainen, umpimähkäinen
  made without careful choice; indiscriminate

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  promiscuous /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/ 
  1. असंयमी
        "Promiscuous persons are prone to aids."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  promiscuous /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/
  pomiješan, raznorodan, skupni, slučajan, zajednički, zbrkan

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  promiscuous /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/
  1. kuszált
  2. összevissza
  3. esetleges
  4. válogatás nélküli
  5. véletlen

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  promiscuous /prəˈmɪskjʊəs/ 
    swobodny, nie przebierający

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  promiscuous /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/ 
  promíscuo

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  promiscuous //pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs// 
  promiskuös, lösaktig
  indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  promiscuous /pɹəmˈɪskjuːəs/
  1. karışık, karmakanşık
  2. farksız
  3. herkes ile yapılan
  4. (k. dili) rasgele
  5. rasgele cinsel ilişkide bulunan. pro - miscuously  ayrımsız olarak.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈpɹoʊmɪskwəs/, /pɹɑˈmɪskjuəs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  197 Moby Thesaurus words for "promiscuous":
     Paphian, abandoned, aimless, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent,
     amoral, amorphous, amphibious, assorted, blanket, blended, botched,
     bungling, capricious, careless, casual, causeless, chambering,
     chaotic, clumsy, combined, complex, composite, compound,
     compounded, confused, conglomerate, cursory, dappled, debauched,
     deficient, depraved, designless, desultory, disarticulated,
     discontinuous, dishonorable, disjunct, disordered, disorderly,
     disorganized, dispersed, disproportionate, disregardful,
     dissipated, dissolute, driftless, dysteleological, easy, eclectic,
     equivocal, erratic, faithless, fast, fifty-fifty, fitful, formless,
     frivolous, general, gratuitous, half-and-half, half-assed,
     haphazard, heedless, helter-skelter, heterogeneous,
     higgledy-piggledy, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, immethodical,
     immoderate, immoral, imprudent, inchoate, incoherent, indecent,
     indifferent, indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative,
     inexplicable, insensitive, intermingled, intermixed, intricate,
     ironic, irregular, irresponsible, jumbled, lax, libertine,
     licentious, light, loose, loose-moraled, many-sided, meaningless,
     medley, messy, mindless, mingled, miscellaneous, misshapen, mixed,
     motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial,
     neglectful, negligent, nonjudgmental, nonsymmetrical,
     nonsystematic, nonuniform, of easy virtue, of loose morals,
     orderless, patchy, perfunctory, planless, pluralistic, profligate,
     purposeless, random, scrambled, senseless, shapeless, slack,
     slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, spasmodic,
     sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray, syncretic,
     systemless, tactless, thoughtless, thrown together, unaccountable,
     unarranged, unbridled, uncaring, unchaste, unclassified,
     unconscientious, unconsidered, uncontrolled, uncritical,
     uncriticizing, uncurbed, undemanding, undifferentiating,
     undirected, undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative,
     unexacting, unfaithful, unfastidious, unfussy, ungoverned,
     ungraded, uninhibited, unjoined, unmethodical, unmeticulous,
     unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unparticular, unplanned,
     unrestrained, unselective, unsorted, unsubtle, unsymmetrical,
     unsystematic, untactful, unthinking, untidy, ununiform, vague,
     varied, wandering, wanton, wayward, wholesale, whorish, wild
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 杂乱的,混杂的,混淆的;
  ad. 偶然地,胡乱地;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 杂乱的,混杂的,混淆的
     ad. 偶然地,胡乱地

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