Definizione monolingua

promiscuous

promiscuous (comparative more promiscuous, superlative most promiscuous)

1. Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 379-80

     Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.

   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1:

     they had both been educated [...] on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.

2. Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
3. Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.

   ""everyone has always known, widely promiscuous heterosexual men have, as I say, a whiff of the bathhouse about them."" —Ann Coulter

4. (networking) The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

Definizione dizionario promiscuous

confuso

promiscuo

Altri significati:

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

Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.

made without careful choice; indiscriminate

(networking) The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.

Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.

indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners

made up of various disparate elements mixed together