Synonyms for promiscuous
- adjective
Most common
casual licentious unchaste disorderly indiscriminate unarranged
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Unchaste
unchaste, wanton, licentious, loose, easy, casual, abandoned, slack, light, dissolute, immoral, careless, impure, unrestrained, sluttish vulgar, common dated, fast vulgar dated
Other
indiscriminate, disorderly, confused, mixed, motley, unordered, miscellaneous, unarranged, wappened dated UK
Definitions
- adj. 1
Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
Related words
- Word family
- promiscuity promiscuously promiscuousness
- Phrases
- promiscuous woman promiscuous man
- Is a kind of
- corrupted debauched decadent depraved dissolute
Example sentences
- casual They are collecting information by casual methods.
- licentious He was converted from his licentious living.
- disorderly I was suspended from school for disorderly conduct.
- indiscriminate It is indiscriminate revenge.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| promiscuous | rising | |
| casual | rising | |
| licentious | steady | |
| unchaste | steady | |
| disorderly | falling | |
| indiscriminate | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- easy2, fast1
- 5 letters
- light1, mixed1, loose1, slack1
- 6 letters
- common2, casual3, motley2, impure2, wanton2
- 7 letters
- immoral3
- 8 letters
- confused2, careless2, unchaste, sluttish, wappened
- 9 letters
- abandoned3, dissolute, unordered
- 10 letters
- disorderly4, licentious3, unarranged
- 12 letters
- unrestrained3
- 13 letters
- miscellaneous5
- 14 letters
- indiscriminate5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (easy2 = 2 syllables).