heterosexual

hetero- +‎ -sexual.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/, /ˌhɛtəɹoʊˈsɛkʃuəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/, /ˌhɛtɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/

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heterosexual (comparative more heterosexual, superlative most heterosexual)

1. Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.
   • 2021 November 17, Thai PBS, “Thai charter court rules that only heterosexual marriages are constitutional”, in Thai PBS World‎, Bangkok: Thai Public Broadcasting Service, retrieved 2021-11-17:

     Thai charter court rules that only heterosexual marriages are constitutional: Same-sex marriage in Thailand will have to wait, as the Constitutional Court ruled unanimously today (Wednesday) that Section 1448 of the Civil and Commercial Code, defining marriage as being a union between a man and a woman, is constitutional.

2. (obsolete, medicine) Having a sexual desire for the opposite sex seen as unhealthy, including a proclivity for nonreproductive sex.

• (sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex): straight, hetero, other-sex

• heteroflexible
• cishet

• (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), plurisexual (-ity), polysexual (-ity), robosexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity), vegansexual (-ity) ^{(Category: en:Sexual orientations)}
• heteroromantic

• heterosocial
• heteroerotic
• heterogenital

heterosexual (plural heterosexuals)

1. A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism.

• (heterosexual person): straight (especially in the plural), hetero, breeder (humorous, often offensive)

• homosexual

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˌɛ.tə.ɾu.sək.suˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˌɛ.tə.ɾo.sək.suˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˌɛ.te.ɾo.sek.suˈal]

heterosexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural heterosexuals)

1. heterosexual

heterosexual m or f by sense (plural heterosexuals)

1. heterosexual

• heterosexualitat

From hetero- +‎ sexual.

heterosexual m or f (plural heterosexuais)

1. heterosexual

heterosexual m or f by sense (plural heterosexuais)

1. heterosexual

• homosexual

• heterosexualidade

• heterofobia

Coined by Austro-Hungarian writer, journalist, translator and bibliographer Karl-Maria Kertbeny in 1868, from hetero- +‎ sexual.

heterosexual (strong nominative masculine singular heterosexualer, not comparable)

1. Dated form of heterosexuell.

   Coordinate term: homosexual

Borrowed from French hétérosexuel. Equivalent to hetero- +‎ sexual.

• IPA^(key): /ˌhe.te.ro.sek.suˈal/

heterosexual m or n (feminine singular heterosexuală, masculine plural heterosexuali, feminine and neuter plural heterosexuale)

1. heterosexual

heterosexual m (plural heterosexuali, feminine equivalent heterosexuală)

1. a heterosexual

• heterosexualitate

From hetero- +‎ sexual.

• IPA^(key): /eteɾoseɡˈswal/ [e.t̪e.ɾo.seɣ̞ˈswal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: he‧te‧ro‧se‧xual

heterosexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural heterosexuales)

1. heterosexual

heterosexual m or f by sense (plural heterosexuales)

1. heterosexual

   Antonym: homosexual

• “heterosexual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014