promiscuous
adjective
[ prəˈmɪskjʊəs ]
• having or characterized by many transient sexual relationships.
• "promiscuous teenagers"
Similar:
licentious,
sexually indiscriminate,
wild,
debauched,
dissolute,
dissipated,
liberated,
sex-positive,
profligate,
unchaste,
libertine,
abandoned,
unrestrained,
swinging,
tarty,
trampy,
slack,
wanton,
of easy virtue,
fast,
loose,
fallen,
roundheeled,
light,
riggish,
slutty,
easy,
• demonstrating or implying an unselective approach; indiscriminate or casual.
• "the city fathers were promiscuous with their honours"
Similar:
indiscriminate,
undiscriminating,
unselective,
random,
irresponsible,
haphazard,
thoughtless,
unthinking,
unconsidered,
casual,
careless,
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin promiscuus ‘indiscriminate’, (based on miscere ‘to mix’) + -ous. The early sense was ‘consisting of elements mixed together’, giving rise to ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘undiscriminating’, whence the notion of ‘casual’.
