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# Made up of [[various]] [[disparate]] [[element]]s [[mix#Verb|mixed]] together; of [[disorderly]] [[composition]]. |
# Made up of [[various]] [[disparate]] [[element]]s [[mix#Verb|mixed]] together; of [[disorderly]] [[composition]]. |
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#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|1|lines=379-80|text=Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the '''promiscuous''' croud stood yet aloof.}} |
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#* {{RQ:Eliot Middlemarch|volume=I|book=I|chapter=I|page=4|passage=[T]hey 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.}} |
#* {{RQ:Eliot Middlemarch|volume=I|book=I|chapter=I|page=4|passage=[T]hey 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.}} |
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# Made without [[careful]] [[choice]]; [[indiscriminate]]. |
# Made without [[careful]] [[choice]]; [[indiscriminate]]. |
Revision as of 08:37, 8 June 2024
Englisch
Etymology
From Latin prōmiscuus (“mixed, not separated”), from prō (“forth”) + misceō (“mix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adjective
promiscuous (comparative more promiscuous, superlative most promiscuous)
- Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
- Synonym: motley
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 379-80:
- Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 4:
- [T]hey 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.
- Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
- A sail caught by a promiscuous wind.
- Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in choosing said sexual partners.
- 2023, Parliament of Singapore, “Women’s Charter (Family Violence and Other Matters) (Amendment) Bill”, in Republic of Singapore Government Gazette[1], page 5:
- X spreads false rumours to third parties about X’s spouse being promiscuous. X’s spouse finds out about the rumours and is distressed. X has committed emotional or psychological abuse against X’s spouse.
- (networking) The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
Derived terms
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
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See also
Further reading
- “promiscuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “promiscuous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “promiscuous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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