What are some opposite words for promiscuous?
Antonyms for promiscuous
prəˈmɪs kyu əspro·mis·cu·ous
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term promiscuous.
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promiscuousadjective
Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
Synonyms:
motleypromiscuousadjective
Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
Synonyms:
motleypromiscuousadjective
Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
everyone has always known, widely heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them. Ann Coulter
Synonyms:
motleypromiscuousadjective
The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
Synonyms:
motley
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
promiscuous
Antonyms:
sorted, select, orderly, arranged, distributed, reserved, as sorted, exclusive, niceSynonyms:
mingled, confused, undistinguished, unselected, unarranged, undistributed, unassorted, common, unreserved, casual, disorderly, unordered
Princeton's WordNet
promiscuousadjective
not selective of a single class or person
"Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money"
Antonyms:
chaste, discriminateeasy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wantonadjective
casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
"her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
Antonyms:
discriminate, chasteSynonyms:
motiveless, light-headed, sluttish, wanton, wakeful, faint, prosperous, at large(p), well-situated, soft, gentle, idle, blowsy, lightsome, blowzy, light-colored, unaccented, slatternly, weak, low-cal, lite, easy, well-off, liberal, abstemious, informal, unclouded, leisurely, unaffixed, open, light(a), well-to-do, clear, well-fixed, easygoing, on the loose(p), comfortable, lightheaded, clean, tripping, short, scant(p), unprovoked, free, well-heeled, slack, light, swooning, calorie-free, escaped, lax, loose
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
promiscuousadjective
Synonyms:
indiscriminate
How to use promiscuous in a sentence?
The category is a promiscuous because people like to try different things and there's no better place to do that than with Truly.
I found myself doing things that I was so ashamed of, being super-promiscuous and stuff, i think I used Xanax because I was so ashamed.
A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
We have not been parental in this, we tell people this is one of the tools that's helpful in stopping the transmission of HIV and let them make up their own minds. There are naysayers out there. There are people who say PrEP encourages people to be promiscuous, but that hasn't been our experience.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#258 | reserved | |
#453 | select | |
#1157 | nice | |
#2129 | sorted | |
#2739 | exclusive | |
#2819 | distributed | |
#6417 | arranged | |
#19611 | discriminate | |
#20349 | orderly | |
#45774 | promiscuous | |
#54725 | chaste |
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