Definition of BISEXUAL

bisexual

Meanings

Plural: bisexuals

Noun

  • a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes
  • A person who is bisexual.
  • A plant or fungus, or part thereof, which is bisexual.
  • An organism (that is, a species) which has male and female sexes.

Adjective

  • sexually attracted to both sexes

Adjective Satellite

  • having an ambiguous sexual identity

Adj

  • Sexually attracted to both same-gendered and different-gendered partners. Similar to pansexual
  • Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
  • Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
  • Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
  • Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
  • Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
  • Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
  • Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
  • Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
  • Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
  • Hermaphroditic/intersex, being both male and female, or alternating between being male and being female.
  • Having both male and female parts, characteristics, or functions.
  • Androgynous.
  • Having two distinct sexes, male and female (as contrasted with unisexual or hermaphroditic).
  • Involving two sexes (particularly with regard to reproduction; contrast parthenogenetic or asexual).

Origin / Etymology

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".

Synonyms

AC/DC, ambidextrous, ambisextrous, bi, bisexual person, curious, epicene, flexible, hermaphrodite, Kinsey 3, omnifutuent, open-minded, perfect, switch-hitting, versatile

Scrabble Score: 17

bisexual is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
bisexual is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bisexual is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 20

bisexual is a valid Words With Friends word