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sex-starved

sex-starved adjective: undersexed, sexually unsatisfied.

Adjective

sex-starved (comparative more sex-starved, superlative most sex-starved)

  1. Undersexed, sexually unsatisfied.
    • The rickets were sold to sex-starved who had weird ideas about Negro women.6 August 1953, “Jet”, in American political and entertainment news., volume 4, Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, pages 21-22

Forms of sex-starved

comparativemore sex-starved
superlativemost sex-starved

Questions about sex-starved

What does sex-starved mean?
Sex-starved means undersexed, sexually unsatisfied.
What part of speech is sex-starved?
Sex-starved is an adjective.

Words near sex-starved in the dictionary

  1. sex-on-premises venues
  2. sex-plus
  3. sex-positive
  4. sex-positivity
  5. sex-ridden
  6. sex-starved
  7. sex-text
  8. sex-texted
  9. sex-texting
  10. sex-texts
  11. sex-traffic

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