Careful vs Promiscuous - What's the difference?
careful | promiscuous |
(obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
*, Bk.V:
*:‘Alas,’ sayde Sir Cadore, ‘now carefull is myne herte that now lyeth dede my cosyn that I beste loved.’
(obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
*:Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.
Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
:He was a slow and careful driver.
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
:They made a careful search of the crime scene.
Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
* 1667 , , Book 1, ll. 379-80
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Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
(networking) The mode in which a gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
As adjectives the difference between careful and promiscuous
is that careful is (obsolete) full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad while promiscuous is made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.careful
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Alternative forms
* carefull (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* carelessDerived terms
* carefullypromiscuous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.
- 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.