bisexual
Syllables: bi·sex·u·al/baɪˈsɛk.ʃʊ.əl/US/baɪˈsɛk.ʃ(əw).əl/
bisexual adjective: sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.).
Adjective
bisexual (comparative more bisexual, superlative most bisexual)
- Sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.)
- Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed.2016 October 7, Juliet Bennett Rylah, “Skirt Club Is a Sex Club for the Casually Bisexual Modern Woman”, in VICE
- Pakistani transgender activist Hina Baloch has sparked a massive online debate after claiming in a viral video that 80% of Pakistan is gay and the remaining 20% are bisexual. Speaking in an interview with the Queer Global YouTube channel, Baloch described homosexuality in Pakistan as an open secret...2026 April 4, India Today Global, “80% Of Pakistanis are gay, says Trans Activist Hina Baloch In An Interview”, in Youtube Video Description
- Synonyms:
- AC/DC, ambidextrous, bi, omnifutuent
- Antonyms:
- monosexual
- Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
- Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
- Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
- Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
- Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.
- Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual.
- To say that Loki is bisexual means that he readily alternates between the male and female sexes, becoming female at will or as needed.2004, Lois Bragg, Oedipus Borealis: The Aberrant Body in Old Icelandic Myth and Saga, →ISBN
- Androgynous.
- The bisexual name, such as Marion and Carol (and Evelyn and Vivian in England), is frequently a source of annoyance and embarrassment to the letter writer, who, if he does not know his ambiguously named correspondent personally […]1947, Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet, American Speech
- At the desk, he completed the registration card, signing his name Jean Cable and giving a New York address. He did not know for sure that he was being pursued, but if so, he knew his pursuers would check new registrations around the city. The bisexual name would give them one more obstacle […]1976, Frank V. Fowlkes, The Peruvian Contracts: A Novel, Putnam Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 128
- Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).
- It is probable, therefore, that hermaphroditism must be regarded as a variation from an earlier condition in which the sexes were separate, and that the hermaphrodites which occasionally appear in normally bisexual species are produced by variations occurring sporadically in the same direction.1914, Leonard Doncaster, The Determination of Sex, page 120
- We also know that bisexual species reproduce during a longer period than hermaphrodite species.1925, Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania. Zoological Laboratory, page 204
- Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).
- […] where the parthenogenetic and bisexual generations do not differ in any character except their manner of reproduction[…]1908, Science Progress in the Twentieth Century: A Quarterly Journal of Scientific Work & Thought, page 41
- But it does not agree with our idea of orthodox sexual reproduction, since many generations may pass without the appearance of males. The reproductive products at such times are purely feminine—that is, eggs which develop without having been fertilized by a male cell, the spermatozoan. We may...1913, Kammerer's Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution of 1912, in the Congressional Serial Set, page 425
Noun
bisexual (plural bisexuals)
- A person who is bisexual.
- Several chapters are devoted to the investigations of the origins and influences prevalent in the life of a bisexual with the latter portion of the book devoted to three extensive in-depth interviews with three bisexuals.1984, Women and deviance, page 63
- Synonyms:
- bi
- A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.
- An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.
- The direct way to solve this dilemma is to study the inheritance of some specific features of genomic DNA of bisexual species by the genome of unisexual species . It seems possible to study this if the recent bisexuals resemble their ancestral […]1999, Russian Journal of Herpetology
bisexual meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bisexual in Hindi
- sexually attracted to both men and women
- उभयलैंगिक ubhaylaiṅgik, उभयलिंगी ubhayliṅgī
bisexual in Tamil
- bisexual person
- ஈரர் īrar, மிடையீரர் miṭaiyīrar
bisexual in Marathi
- sexually attracted to both men and women
- उभयलैंगिक ubhaylaiṅgik
bisexual in Urdu
- دو جنس پرست
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- bisexual in Bengali
- উভকামী ubhôkami
- bisexual in Telugu
- బైసెక్సువల్, ద్విలింగం, ద్విలింగ
- bisexual in Malayalam
- ഉഭയലിംഗമായ, ഉഭയലിംഗി, ദ്വിലിംഗജീവി, ഉഭയലിംഗലക്ഷണങ്ങളുള്ള
- bisexual in Kannada
- ಉಭಯಲಿಂಗದ, ದ್ವಿಲಿಂಗೀ
- bisexual in Punjabi
- ਦੋ-ਲਿੰਗੀ, ਦੋ-ਲਿੰਗਕ
- bisexual in Gujarati
- ઉભયલિંગી, દ્વિલિંગી, બાયસેક્સ્યુઅલ
- bisexual in Odia
- ଉଭକାମୀ
- bisexual in Nepali
- उभयलिंगी, उभयलिङ्गी, द्विलिङ्गी
- bisexual in Tagalog
- duhansariin, silahis
- bisexual in Arabic
- زهرة خنثى, مزدوج الميل الجنسي
- bisexual in Malay
- dwijantina, dwiseks, dwiseksual, biseks
- bisexual in Indonesian
- biseksual
- bisexual in Persian
- دوجنسگرا do-jens-garâ
- bisexual in Thai
- ชอบทั้งสองเพศ, เสือไบ
Examples of bisexual in a sentence
- Pakistani transgender activist Hina Baloch has sparked a massive online debate after claiming in a viral video that 80% of Pakistan is gay and the remaining 20% are bisexual.2026 April 4, India Today Global, “80% Of Pakistanis are gay, says Trans Activist Hina Baloch In An Interview”, in Youtube Video...
- Among the arguments put forth for Ishtar's hermaphroditic or bisexual character is the practice of transvestism in religious rites associated with her (e.g.2013, Zainab Bahrani, Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia, →ISBN:
- Consider the identity play of the French artist who gave herself the bisexual name of Claude Cahun (1894–1954).2003, Efrat Tseëlon, Masquerade and Identities: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Marginality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 59:
- The Bionic Woman of the television serial of the seventies, though she wears ordinary dress most of the time, has the bisexual name of Jamie Summers.2013, Marina Warner, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 307:
Synonyms of bisexual
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Antonyms
Forms of bisexual
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more bisexual |
| superlative | most bisexual |
| alternative form | bi-sexual |
| Noun | |
| plural | bisexuals |
Origin of bisexual
From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or to the same sex) must be partly of another sex and thus "hermaphroditic".
Words formed from bisexual
Phrases with bisexual
Words that rhyme with bisexual
- sexual
- ambisexual
- androsexual
- heterosexual
- homosexual
- omnisexual
- polysexual
- technosexual
- transsexual
- abrosexual
- aegosexual
- ammosexual
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Questions about bisexual
- What does bisexual mean?
- Bisexual means sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals. (Compare pansexual.).
- What is bisexual in Hindi?
- Bisexual in Hindi is उभयलैंगिक (ubhaylaiṅgik), उभयलिंगी (ubhayliṅgī). See Bisexual meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use bisexual in a sentence?
- Pakistani transgender activist Hina Baloch has sparked a massive online debate after claiming in a viral video that 80% of Pakistan is gay and the remaining 20% are bisexual.
- What part of speech is bisexual?
- Bisexual can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce bisexual?
- Bisexual is pronounced /baɪˈsɛk.ʃʊ.əl/ (UK).
Words near bisexual in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bisexual (page history and authors); bisexual (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bisexual (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bisexual (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bisexual (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bisexual (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bisexual (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bisexual (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bisexual (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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