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hetero

/ˈhɛt.(ə).ɹoʊ/US/ˈhɛ.tɚ.oʊ/

hetero adjective: heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.

Adjective

hetero (comparative more hetero, superlative most hetero)

  1. (informal) Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.
    • This novel depicts a hetero couple who are in love.

Noun

hetero (plural heteros)

  1. (informal) A heterosexual person.
    • You only have to watch Dominic West’s dancing in the film Pride for two seconds to understand that there are some things beyond a hetero’s range.2018, Caspar Salmon, “Casting Jack Whitehall as a gay Disney character is an act of queer erasure”, in The Guardian

hetero meaning in Tamil

hetero in Tamil

மறு, மற்ற

Examples of hetero in a sentence

  • Maybe I’m a sus hetero bro who's been subtly abusive and deserves to be blocked out entirely.
  • Often on the run or hiding out, they led priapic private lives: Bacon was homosexual, Freud hetero.
  • The absolute "NO" answer burst the bubble that said that only heteros play these role games.

All 15 example sentences with hetero

Synonyms of hetero

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of hetero

Forms of hetero

Adjective
comparativemore hetero
superlativemost hetero
Noun
pluralheteros

Origin of hetero

Clipped from heterosexual.

Words formed from hetero

Phrases with hetero

Questions about hetero

What does hetero mean?
Hetero means heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.
What is hetero in Tamil?
Hetero in Tamil is மறு, மற்ற. See Hetero meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hetero?
Hetero can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce hetero?
Hetero is pronounced /ˈhɛ.tɚ.oʊ/ (US).

Words near hetero in the dictionary

  1. hetereogeneity
  2. heteric
  3. heterically
  4. hetericism
  5. heteritic
  6. hetero
  7. hetero marriage
  8. Hetero sapiens
  9. hetero-
  10. hetero-fascism
  11. hetero-marriage

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hetero (page history and authors); hetero (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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