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Definitions: Bisexual |
BisexualAdjective1. Sexually attracted to both sexes. 2. Having an ambiguous sexual identity. Noun1. A person who is sexually attracted to both men and women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bisexual" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Note: Bisexual \Bi*sex"u*al\, adjective. [Prefix bi- sexual.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Diversity | Individuals attracted to members of the male and female sex. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | English (bi ). (references) |
Slang | Queer, bi. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BisexualSynonyms: epicene (adj), bisexual person (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: heterosexual (adj), homosexual (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sexuality | Homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual. |
Unconformity | Heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal; asymmetric; adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bisexual |
| English words defined with "bisexual": Bisexous, bisexual person, Bisexuous ♦ switch-hitter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bisexual": Sexual Habits. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bisexual" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (bisexous), Spanish (bisexual), Swedish (bisexuell). |
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Screenplays | Thank God I'm bisexual (The Bachelor; writing credit: Roi Cooper Megrue; Jean C. Havez) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bisexual Fantasies (1985) | |
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Health | In addition, little is known about the risk behaviors of lesbians and bisexual women, heterosexual men, persons over 50 years old, and sexually active youth. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | In September 2000, Jose Eduardo do Bernardes da Silva, a member of Amnesty International, and Roberto de Jesus, president of the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Pride Association, both received bombs in the mail with swastikas and the word "revenge" printed on the package. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bisexual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.80% of the time. "Bisexual" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.8% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bisexual": bisexual person. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bisexual | 2,625 | bisexual female | 58 |
lesbian gay and bisexual | 395 | bisexual photo | 58 |
bisexual free pic | 313 | bisexual britni | 56 |
bisexual man | 300 | bisexual gallery | 56 |
bisexual story | 256 | bisexual teen | 54 |
bisexual porn | 241 | bisexual swinger | 54 |
bisexual mmf | 241 | gay and bisexual | 53 |
bisexual chat | 192 | bisexual movie | 52 |
bisexual sex | 185 | free bisexual story | 51 |
bisexual woman | 168 | free bisexual movie | 49 |
bisexual orgy | 149 | free bisexual | 44 |
bisexual pic | 144 | mmf bisexual pic | 42 |
bisexual picture | 130 | bisexual erotic story | 39 |
bisexual couple | 106 | bisexual playground | 37 |
bisexual video | 93 | bisexual erotica | 37 |
bisexual male | 86 | free mmf bisexual pic | 34 |
free bisexual picture | 81 | bisexual dating | 34 |
bisexual xxx | 74 | bisexual tgp | 33 |
bisexual chat rooms | 70 | bisexual black man | 32 |
free bisexual porn | 58 | bisexual wife | 32 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bisexual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i dygjinishëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خنثي (hermaphrodite), خنثوي (androgynous, hermaphrodite, intersexual), ثنائي الجنس (androgynous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хермафродитен (androgynous, epicene, monoecious), двуполов (androgynous, epicene). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bisexuální, bisexuál, oboupohlavní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bisexueel (AC/DC). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دارای علاقه جنسی به جنس مقابل وبه خود, دارای خصوصیات جنس نروماده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bissexuel, bissexué. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zwitterhaft (hermaphroditic), zweigeschlechtig, bisexuell. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμφιφυλόφιλοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ו מי י (androgynous, hermaphrodite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | biszexuális. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | banci (effeminate, hermaphrodite, powerless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bisessuale (bi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | バイキング料理 (bicology, bicycle motocross, bike, binary, binary dump, binary file, bin-aural, binder, bite, bypass, byte, byte swap, byte-code, byte-compile, motorcycle, smorgasbord, viper, vitality, work), 両性的 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | バイセクシュアル , りょうせいてき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | daa-cheintyssagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isexualbay bissexual. (various references) bisexuat (bisexed), hermafrodit (hermaphrodite). (various references) двуполый. (various references) biseksualan. (various references) bisexual. (various references) bisexuell, tvekönad (hermaphrodite), tvåkönad. (various references) ที่ตอบสนองต่อทั้งเพศหญิงและเพศชาย, ที่มีสองเพศในตัวเ"ียวกัน, ที่มีลักษ"ะของทั้งสองเพศ, คนที่ตอบสนองต่อทั้งเพศหญิงและเพศชาย. (various references) biseksüel kimse, biseksüel, iki eşeyli. (various references) гермафродитний (androgynous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bisexual": bisexualities, bisexuality, bisexually, bisexuals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bisexual": ambisexual. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bisexual": ambisexualities, ambisexuality, ambisexuals. (additional references) | |
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"Bisexual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bisextual, bisexul, Bisseuil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bisexual" (pronounced bī'se"kshuwul) |
| 7 | -s e" k sh uw u l | sexual. |
| 3 | -uw u l | annual, audiovisual, biannual, conceptual, consensual, continual, contractual, eventual, factual, gradual, habitual, ineffectual, intellectual, manual, menstrual, parimutuel, perpetual, residual, ritual, transsexual, virtual. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-l-s-u-x" | |
-2 letters: abseil, sexual, suable, usable. | |
-3 letters: ables, abuse, aisle, axels, axile, axils, axles, bails, bales, basil, beaus, beaux, biles, blase, blues, ileus, lexis, lieus, lubes, luxes, sable, silex. | |
-4 letters: able, ails, albs, ales, axel, axes, axil, axis, axle, bail, bale, bals, base, beau, bels, bias, bile, bise, blae, blue, eaux, ibex, ilea, ilex, isba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-l-s-u-x" | |
+1 letter: bisexuals. | |
+2 letters: ambisexual, bisexually. | |
+3 letters: ambisexuals, bisexuality, exhaustible, inexcusable, inexcusably, subclimaxes. | |
+5 letters: ambisexuality, bisexualities, inexhaustible, inexhaustibly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 73 65 78 75 61 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. ... . -..- ..- .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01110011 01100101 01111000 01110101 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i s e x u a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0073 0065 0078 0075 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675857190876778 |
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