heterosexual
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˌhɛtərəˈsɛkʃuəl/
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heterosexual
- I'm heterosexual.
- heterosexual woman
- heterosexual man
- heterosexual couple
It's mostly two men or heterosexual couples.
- It's mostly two men or heterosexual couples.
- You might not be out, and you might be the biggest lying liar in the heterosexual world, but you're gay.
- He said you need to start viewing yourself not as a heterosexual male.
- I mean it, It looked like our legal rights were on parallel with heterosexual people.
- It's called the Old State Saloon and they post a picture of a black and white flag with heterosexual gender symbols on it.
- It's just they've got the complexity of having to deal with female choice, which makes the whole heterosexual, you know, dating marriage scene that much more complex.
- All right, had it or hit it heterosexual weddings.
- I I I feel a strong heterosexual energy.
- I probably, but also then it becomes, well, you're still heterosexual cisgender.
- Well, he is a male, of course, and he's singing in a fairly subconsciously male way, often heterosexual male.
- This is the Super duper evil gay lifestyle run for your heterosexual lives, people.
- You know, we need to make men in general, and I talk heterosexual, used to the idea that we are going to grow old, we have wrinkles, we sag and we're not perfect.
Examples
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As a heterosexual man, he often dates women and enjoys spending time with them.
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I'm a celibate heterosexual priest.
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At camp, I learned to live in my truth as a heterosexual man.
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The heterosexual male point of view means exactly that.
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And I know of at least two men that he had relationships with that were heterosexual.
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You see, if you ask me, we're heterosexual by default, not by decision.
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In this review, I will discuss the prevention of heterosexual transmission in developing countries.
Academic text (1999) -
Over the past decade, the epidemic has begun to spread through heterosexual transmission.
Academic text (2011) -
I mean, look at him, he's blatantly heterosexual.
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Danny has always been militantly heterosexual, but it intrigued him that I was bisexual.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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7.4
Sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex
Antonyms
Compounds
How Heterosexual
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Heterosexual comes from Greek parts hetero- 'different' and -sexual 'relating to sex', the same hetero- you see in heterogeneous which means 'different kinds'. So when we use heterosexual as an adjective it describes someone who is sexually attracted to the 'opposite' sex.