What are some opposite words for promiscuous?

Antonyms for promiscuous
prəˈmɪs kyu əspro·mis·cu·ous

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. promiscuousadjective

    Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.

    Synonyms:
    motley

  2. promiscuousadjective

    Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.

    Synonyms:
    motley

  3. promiscuousadjective

    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:
    motley

  4. promiscuousadjective

    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 Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. promiscuous

    Antonyms:
    sorted, select, orderly, arranged, distributed, reserved, as sorted, exclusive, nice

    Synonyms:
    mingled, confused, undistinguished, unselected, unarranged, undistributed, unassorted, common, unreserved, casual, disorderly, unordered

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. promiscuousadjective

    not selective of a single class or person

    "Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money"

    Antonyms:
    chaste, discriminate

    Synonyms:
    wanton, loose, sluttish, light, easy

  2. easy, 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, chaste

    Synonyms:
    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 Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. promiscuousadjective

    Synonyms:
    indiscriminate

How to use promiscuous in a sentence?

  1. Don Lane:

    The category is a promiscuous because people like to try different things and there's no better place to do that than with Truly.

  2. Justin Bieber:

    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.

  3. Victor Lownes:

    A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.

  4. Albert Einstein:

    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.

  5. Darrel Cummings:

    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.

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