Word Meanings - PROMISCUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: PROMISCUOUS

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROMISCUOUS)

• Confused
• Abashed
• embarrassed
• perplexed
• disconcerted
• disorganized
• promiscuous
• chaotic
• complex
• involved
• disarranged
• disordered
• Indiscriminate
• Mixed
• confused
• medley
• ill-assorted
• undiscerning
• undistinguishing
• undiscriminating

Related words: (words related to PROMISCUOUS)

• MIX
  mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. miçra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. 1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of
• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• CHAOTIC
  Resembling chaos; confused.
• ABASHMENT
  The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
• CHAOTICALLY
  In a chaotic manner.
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• DISCONCERT
  1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. 2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted
• COMPLEXUS
  A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
• CONFUSABILITY
  Capability of being confused.
• ABASH
  To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton.
• MIXTLY
  With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• COMPLEXIONED
  Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
• COMPLEXEDNESS
  The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. The complexedness of these moral ideas. Locke.
• PERPLEXLY
  Perplexedly. Milton.
• CONFUSEDNESS
  A state of confusion. Norris.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• CALABASH
  Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.
• SQUABASH
  To crush; to quash; to squash. Sir W. Scott.
• PERMIX
  To mix; to mingle.
• PERMIXTION
  See PERMISSION
• UNEMBARRASSMENT
  Freedom from embarrassment.