heterosexual

Other forms of heterosexual

plural

heterosexuals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about heterosexual

What does heterosexual mean?

heterosexual means "a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heterosexual?

heterosexual has 6 syllables: het-e-ro-sex-u-al. The stress falls on "sex". In IPA it is /ˌhɛtɚoʊˈsɛkʃəwəl/.

What is another word for heterosexual?

Close synonyms include heterosexual person, straight person, straight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of heterosexual?

The recorded antonyms are homosexual, bisexual.

Is heterosexual a common word?

heterosexual is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.