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Definition: Sexy |
SexyAdjective1. Marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes". 2. Exciting sexual desire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SexySynonyms: aphrodisiac (adj), aphrodisiacal (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: anaphrodisiac (adj), unsexy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sexuality | Adjective: sexy, erotic, sexual, carnal, sensual. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sexy |
| Specialty definitions using "sexy": Thats a nice one. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sexy" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (dishy, sexy), French (sexy), German (sexy), Italian (seductive, sexy), Spanish (oomph, sexy). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's not sexy, but it's got teeth (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) So if he can't move, how's he gonna sit down, George? I was a stand-up tomato: a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato (Tootsie; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Don McGuire) I'm dead sexy. Look at my sexy body (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers) Are we scraping Pete Punter with sexy scoops (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) Sure, they both got it, but Chimpy gotta jump his nuts around to get it. The shy cheetah moves with total nonchalance, stickin' it to them in his sexy, slow strut (The Basketball Diaries; writing credit: Bryan Goluboff) | |
Lyrics | I’m too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt (I'm Too Sexy; performing artist: Right Said Fred) Hey sexy baby (I Care 4 U; performing artist: Aaliyah) Such a sexy,sexy pretty little thing (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town) The sexy little things you do (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) Tonight your gonna find a sexy chica thats gonna (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dead Sexy (2001) Sexy Cat (1972) Jenny and Her Sexy Mother (1972) Some Like It Sexy (1969) Agente 00 Sexy (1968) | |
Song Titles | YOU SEXY THING (performing artist: Hot Chocolate ) Sexy Ways (performing artist: Lonnie Mack) I'm Too Sexy (performing artist: Right Said Fred) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Berlin - sexy shop" by Sandro Petri Commentary: "Peppone e don camillo!!!." | "Cruiser Bike 3" by Chris Sharp Commentary: "Another shot of the entire bike. Sexy huh?." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Emo Philips | My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid and her nose was shot off by French soldiers. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | We would be eating chicken, which was sexy and which we preferred |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Suzanne Somers | I don't think men are intimidated by bright women. I think they like it, and I think they find it sexy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sexy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sexy" is used about 649 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) | 100% | 649 | 10,069 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sexy": sexy-looking, sexy-sounding. | |
Ending with "sexy": bi-sexy, highly-sexy, super-sexy. | |
| 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 |
sexy | 21,380 | sexy secretary | 1,003 |
sexy woman | 6,864 | sexy swim wear | 950 |
sexy lingerie | 5,651 | sexy foot | 915 |
sexy man | 3,856 | sexy cartoon | 902 |
sexy bikini | 3,830 | sexy blonde | 852 |
sexy teen | 3,320 | sexy underwear | 824 |
sexy picture | 3,267 | sexy ass | 757 |
sexy model | 3,158 | sexy swimsuit | 736 |
sexy clothing | 2,451 | sexy pantie | 593 |
sexy costume | 2,350 | sexy lesbian | 592 |
sexy leg | 2,345 | sexy ads | 576 |
sexy babe | 2,168 | sexy nurse | 565 |
sexy photo | 1,858 | sexy housewife | 555 |
sexy lady | 1,805 | sexy e card | 554 |
sexy dress | 1,741 | sexy guy | 551 |
sexy story | 1,577 | sexy black woman | 546 |
sexy shoes | 1,502 | free sexy picture | 506 |
sexy wife | 1,400 | sexy high heel | 491 |
sexy wallpaper | 1,350 | sexy stocking | 479 |
sexy thong | 1,007 | sexy asian | 478 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sexy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nxitës (abetter, abettor, aphrodisiac, cordial, encouraging, excitant, fillip, fire brand, fomenter, hortative, hortatory, impellent, incendiary, incentive, inciting, inflammatory, instigator, lively, mainspring, piquant, poignant, promoter, provocative, sponsor, stimulant, stimulating, warmonger), joshës (alluring, attractive, captivating, charming, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, luscious, seducer, seductive, tempter, tempting, winning, winsome), erotik (amative, erogenous, erotic). (various references) | |
Arabic | مثير للغريزة الجنسية, مثير للشهوة (erotic, salacious), ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, genial, good natured, heartfelt, hearty, intimate, kind, neighbor, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, nice, outgoing, pally, sympathetic, warm, well disposed), جنسي (erotic, sex, sexist, sexual). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сексуален (carnal, sensual, sex, sexual), сексапилен (glamorous, glamourous, hot, sexed), еротичен (erotic, steamy, warm), порнографски (filthy, libidinous, obscene, pornographic, salacious). (various references) | |
Chinese | 性感 (oomph, sexiness). (various references) | |
Czech | sexy (dishy), erotický (erotic). (various references) | |
Farsi | شهوت انگیز (Lascivious, Luscious, Lusty, Voluptuous), دارای احساسات شهوانی . (various references) | |
Finnish | seksikäs. (various references) | |
French | sympa, sexy. (various references) | |
German | sexy, scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent), knackig (crisp, crunchy, juicy, tasty), erotisch (erotic, erotically), brünstig (ardent, fervent, on heat, rutting). (various references) | |
Greek | ελκυστικόσ προσ το αντίθετον φύλον, λάγνοσ (concupiscent, lecher, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful, prurient, salacious). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ארוטי (erotic), סקסי (sexual). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szexis (hot), szexi (hot, luscious). (various references) | |
Indonesian | seksi (section), bahenol (nicely shaped, voluptuous). (various references) | |
Italian | sexy (seductive), attraente (attractive, catching, catchy, charming, cute, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, inviting, killing, likable, likeable, lovely, taking, winsome). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 色っぽい (amorous, erotic, voluptuous). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | モテモテ , せいてき (her child, legal wife, main family, political opponent, sex, sexual, static, well-being), かんのうてき (sensual, voluptuous), いろっぽい (amorous, erotic, voluptuous), セクシー . (various references) | |
Korean | 섹시한. (various references) | |
Manx | er cannoo (amorous, aroused, lustful, sexually precocious), cannyssagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | exysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sensual (amative, bestial, boarish, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, epicurean, fleshly, goatish, high-sounding, incontinent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lubricous, lustful, sensual, sensuous, unreserved, voluptuous, wanton), excitante (burning, excitant, exciter, exciting, provocative, rousing, whet), atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, bewitching, captivating, catch, charming, cute, dinky, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, prepossessing, pretty, striking, stunner, taking, tempting, winning, winsome, yummy). (various references) | |
Russian | сексуальный (raunchy, sexual). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | seksi, privlačan (alluring, arresting, attractive, catchy, charming, engaging, fetching, foxy, personable, prepossessing, toothsome, winning, winsome). (various references) | |
Spanish | sexual (generative, sex, sexual). (various references) | |
Swedish | sexig (hot, juicy). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่กระตุ้นความสนใจ, ที่ดึงดูดทางเพศ. (various references) | |
Turkish | seksi kimse (erotic, hot stuff), seksi (hot), cinsel istek uyandıran (erogenic, erogenous, erotic, sex, sultry, voluptuous), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | надто сексуальний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khiêu dâm (pornographic), gợi tình (erotic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "sexy": unsexy. (additional references) | |
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"Sexy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ccxxi, cxxi, dexi, dexy, exy, hexy, rexy, saxi, saxu, saxy, Sdex, Seaya, secti, secty, seex, seey, Seeya, seggs, seggxy, seksy, semy, seox, sery, sety, sevy, sexa, Sexby, Sexe, sexey, sexi, sexie, sexim, sexit, sexo, sexs, sexxy, Seym, sezy, sfx, shex, siex, sixi, skex, slex, smey, soex, soxy, soyx, stex, sxee, sxei, sxek, sxem, sxen, sxep, sxer, sxey, sxez, sxy, vexy, wexi, zex, zey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sexy" (pronounced se"ksē) |
| 3 | -k s ē | apoplexy, boxy, doxie, doxy, epoxy, folksy, foxy, galaxy, heterodoxy, hydroxy, maxi, Moxie, Nixie, orthodoxy, oxy, pixie, proxy, taxi, waxy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-s-x-y" | |
-1 letter: sex, yes. | |
-2 letters: es, ex, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-s-x-y" | |
+1 letter: pyxes. | |
+2 letters: desoxy, hexyls, lynxes, onyxes, oryxes, oxeyes, pyxies, sexily, unsexy, xylems, xylose, xyster. | |
+3 letters: calyxes, hyraxes, oxygens, oxysome, pyxides, xylenes, xyloses, xysters. | |
+4 letters: bombyxes, coccyxes, dyslexia, dyslexic, ethoxyls, larynxes, oxysomes, oxytones, pyrexias, sexology, sextuply, sexually, sixpenny, skyboxes, styraxes, syntaxes, syrinxes, xystuses. | |
+5 letters: acetoxyls, apteryxes, asexually, asphyxies, dyslexias, dyslexics, excusably, expressly, extensity, hypotaxes, myxedemas, myxocytes, oxyphiles, pharynxes, pyroxenes, sexlessly, sexuality, taxpayers, xylidines. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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