promiscuously

Thân thiện

This young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously.

Definition

1. Adverb:
   • In a sexually indiscriminate or licentious manner: Engaging in sexual activity with many different partners, often casually and without commitment.
   • In a random, indiscriminate, or non-selective manner: Mixing, choosing, or gathering things or ideas without careful selection or order.

Usage Examples

• Adverb (Licentious sense):

  • He was accused of living promiscuously and without regard for social conventions.
  • The novel's protagonist drifts promiscuously from one affair to the next.

• Adverb (Indiscriminate sense):

  • She reads promiscuously, picking up everything from classic literature to supermarket tabloids.
  • The artist collected materials promiscuously, using whatever he found on the street.

Advanced Usage

• Used figuratively to describe intellectual or aesthetic lack of discrimination:
  • The software's code was promiscuously patched together from various open-source libraries, leading to instability.
  • His taste in decor was promiscuously eclectic, mixing high art with kitsch.

Variants and Related Words

• Promiscuous (adjective): Characterized by a lack of discrimination or selectivity; licentious.

  • He had a promiscuous appetite for all genres of film.
  • The promiscuous sharing of passwords is a security risk.

• Promiscuity (noun): The state or quality of being promiscuous.

  • The study examined the genetic implications of sexual promiscuity in certain species.

Synonyms

• Indiscriminately: In a way that does not show careful choice or judgment.
• Licentiously: In a sexually unrestrained or immoral way.
• Haphazardly: In a manner lacking any obvious principle of organization.

Antonyms

• Selectively: By careful selection; not broadly or randomly.
• Chastely: In a virtuous manner, abstaining from extramarital or all sexual activity.
• Discriminately: With good judgment or discernment.

Related Phrases/Idioms

• "To mix promiscuously": To combine or socialize without restriction or barriers.
  • At the university, students from all backgrounds mixed promiscuously.
• "Promiscuous sharing": The careless or widespread distribution of something (e.g., information, files).
  • Promiscuous sharing of personal data online can have serious consequences.

Học thuật

Adverb

1. in a licentious and promiscuous manner
   • this young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously
2. in an indiscriminate manner
   • she reads promiscuously

Từ đồng nghĩa

• licentiously
• wantonly
• indiscriminately