kinky
/ˈkɪŋki/
kinky adjective: full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
Adjective
kinky (comparative kinkier, superlative kinkiest)
- Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
- kinky hair
- It seemed that there had never been a time when he had not known this moment of waiting while the packed church paused—the sisters in white, heads raised, the brothers in blue, heads back; the white caps of the women seeming to glow in the charged air like crowns, the kinky, gleaming heads of the...1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN
- Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
- What had I been expecting, behind that closed door, the first time? At the very least some minor sexual manipulation, some bygone peccadillo now denied him, prohibited by law and punishable by amputation. To be asked to play Scrabble, instead, as if we were an old married couple, or two children...1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 163
- Their male customers are often identified as lonely, sleazy, and into kinky sex[…]1994, Roberta Perkins, Sex Work and Sex Workers in Australia, page ii
- Antonyms:
- normophilic
- Queer; eccentric; crotchety.
kinky meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
kinky in Hindi
- किन्की
kinky in Tamil
- கின்கி
kinky in Marathi
- किन्की
kinky in Urdu
- گتھی والا, خم دار, پیچ دار, الجھا ہوا
More languagesFewer languages
- kinky in Bengali
- কিঙ্কি, কিংকি
- kinky in Telugu
- కింకీ, కిన్కీ, కిన్కి
- kinky in Malayalam
- വിചിത്രരീതികളുള്ള, അസാധാരണരീതിയിൽ പെരുമാറുന്ന, അസാധാരണത്വമുള്ള, അതിവിചത്രമായ
- kinky in Kannada
- ಕಿನ್ಕಿ, ಕಿಂಕಿ
- kinky in Punjabi
- ਕਿੰਕੀ
- kinky in Gujarati
- કિન્કી, કિંકી, કીન્કી
- kinky in Odia
- କିଙ୍କି, କିଙ୍କୀ
- kinky in Nepali
- किन्की, किंकी
Examples of kinky in a sentence
- To be asked to play Scrabble, instead, as if we were an old married couple, or two children, seemed kinky in the extreme, a violation in its own way.1985, Margaret Atwood, “Soul Scrolls”, in The Handmaid’s Tale, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →ISBN, page 163:
- We begin to see that a kinky relationship is complex and difficult to maintain.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex...
Antonyms of kinky
Forms of kinky
| comparative | kinkier |
|---|---|
| superlative | kinkiest |
Origin of kinky
From kink + -y. Compare Spanish canquiñi (“nappy”).
Words formed from kinky
Words that rhyme with kinky
Questions about kinky
- What does kinky mean?
- Kinky means full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
- What is kinky in Hindi?
- Kinky in Hindi is किन्की. See Kinky meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use kinky in a sentence?
- To be asked to play Scrabble, instead, as if we were an old married couple, or two children, seemed kinky in the extreme, a violation in its own way.
- What part of speech is kinky?
- Kinky is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce kinky?
- Kinky is pronounced /ˈkɪŋki/.
Words near kinky in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: kinky (page history and authors); kinky (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kinky (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kinky (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kinky (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); kinky (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kinky (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kinky (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); kinky (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kinky (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kinky (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kinky (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kinky (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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