adj
Meaning 1
Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
heterosexual
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
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General-American: /ˌhɛtəɹoʊˈsɛkʃuəl/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhɛtəɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌhɛtɹəˈsɛkʃuəl/
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CMU ARPABET: HH EH2 T ER0 OW0 S EH1 K SH AH0 W AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Between two people of different sex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Having a sexual desire for the opposite sex seen as unhealthy, including a proclivity for nonreproductive sex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: homosexual, bisexual
noun
Meaning 6
a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: heterosexual person, straight person, straight
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: fucker
History
Etymology
From hetero- + -sexual. Earliest citation from 1892, in C.G. Craddock's translation of Krafft-Ebbing's Psychopathia Sexualis.
Across languages
Translations
119 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: heteroseksual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Armenian: հետերոսեքսուալ (heterosekʻsual) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Armenian: տարասեռական (taraseṙakan) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Azerbaijani: heteroseksual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Bulgarian: хе́теросексуа́лен (héteroseksuálen) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Catalan: heterosexual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Chinese Mandarin: 異性戀的 /异性恋的 (yìxìngliàn de) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Cornish: kenreydhek — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Czech: heterosexuální — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Danish: heteroseksuel — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Dutch: heteroseksueel — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Esperanto: aliseksema — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Esperanto: malgeja — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Faroese: hinskyndur — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Finnish: heteroseksuaalinen — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- French: hétérosexuel — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Galician: heterosexual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Georgian: ჰეტეროსექსუალი (heṭeroseksuali) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- German: heterosexuell — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Greek: ετεροφυλόφιλος (eterofylófilos) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Hungarian: heteroszexuális — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Ido: heterosexuala — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Indonesian: heteroseksual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Interlingua: heterosexual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Irish: heitrighnéasach — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Italian: eterosessuale — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Japanese: 異性の (isei no) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Kazakh: гетеросексуалды (geteroseksualdy) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Malay: heteroseksual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Manx: hetracheintyssagh — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Māori: taearo — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Māori: taera tauaro — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Māori: piri tauaro — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Māori: piriaro — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Marathi: विषमलिंगी (viṣamliṅgī) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Persian: دگرجنسگرا (degarjens-garâ) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Polish: heteroseksualny — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Portuguese: heterossexual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Portuguese: hétero — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Romanian: heterosexual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Russian: гетеросексуа́льный (getɛrosɛksuálʹnyj) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Russian: натура́л (naturál) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Russian: гетеросексуал (geteroseksual) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Scottish Gaelic: iol-ghnèitheach — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Slovak: heterosexuálny — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Spanish: heterosexual — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Swedish: heterosexuell — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Tajik: дигарҷинсгаро (digarjinsgaro) — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Turkish: heteroseksüel — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Vietnamese: dị tính luyến ái — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Volapük: votageniälik — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Welsh: anghyfunryw — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Welsh: gwahanrywiol — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Welsh: heterorywiol — sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex
- Albanian: heteroseksual — a heterosexual organism
- Arabic: مغاير للجنس — a heterosexual organism
- Armenian: տարասեռական (taraseṙakan) — a heterosexual organism
- Azerbaijani: heteroseksual — a heterosexual organism
- Catalan: heterosexual — a heterosexual organism
- Chinese Mandarin: 異性戀者 /异性恋者 (yìxìngliànzhě) — a heterosexual organism
- Czech: heterosexuál — a heterosexual organism
- Danish: heteroseksuel — a heterosexual organism
- Dutch: heteroseksueel — a heterosexual organism
- Esperanto: aliseksemulo — a heterosexual organism
- Esperanto: aliseksemuliĉo — a heterosexual organism
- Esperanto: aliseksemulino — a heterosexual organism
- Estonian: heteroseksuaal — a heterosexual organism
- Estonian: hetero — a heterosexual organism
- Estonian: vastassooihar — a heterosexual organism
- Finnish: heteroseksuaali — a heterosexual organism
- Finnish: hetero — a heterosexual organism
- French: hétérosexuel — a heterosexual organism
- French: hétéro — a heterosexual organism
- Galician: heterosexual — a heterosexual organism
- Galician: hetero — a heterosexual organism
- German: Heterosexueller — a heterosexual organism
- German: Heterosexuelle — a heterosexual organism
- German: Hetero — a heterosexual organism
- Greenlandic: anguteqatiginngisaminik atoqateqartartoq — a heterosexual organism
- Greenlandic: arnaqatiginngisaminik atoqateqartartoq — a heterosexual organism
- Hungarian: heteroszexuális — a heterosexual organism
- Hungarian: heteró — a heterosexual organism
- Ido: heterosexualo — a heterosexual organism
- Interlingua: heterosexual — a heterosexual organism
- Irish: heitrighnéasach — a heterosexual organism
- Irish: díreach — a heterosexual organism
- Italian: eterosessuale — a heterosexual organism
- Japanese: 異性愛者 (iseiaisha) — a heterosexual organism
- Japanese: ヘテロ (hetero) — a heterosexual organism
- Japanese: ノンケの (nonke no) — a heterosexual organism
- Korean: 이성애자 (iseong'aeja) — a heterosexual organism
- Central Kurdish: مێباز (mêbaz) — a heterosexual organism
- Central Kurdish: نێرباز (nêrbaz) — a heterosexual organism
- Persian: دگرجنسگرا (degarjens-gerâ) — a heterosexual organism
- Persian: هتروسکسوئل (heteroseksu'el) — a heterosexual organism
- Polish: hetero — a heterosexual organism
- Portuguese: heterossexual — a heterosexual organism
- Portuguese: hétero — a heterosexual organism
- Romanian: heterosexual — a heterosexual organism
- Romanian: heterosexuală — a heterosexual organism
- Russian: гетеросексуа́л (getɛrosɛksuál) — a heterosexual organism
- Russian: натура́л (naturál) — a heterosexual organism
- Russian: стрейт (strɛjt) — a heterosexual organism
- Inari-Sami: heteroseksual — a heterosexual organism
- Inari-Sami: hetero — a heterosexual organism
- Northern Sami: heterofiila — a heterosexual organism
- Northern Sami: heteroseksuála — a heterosexual organism
- Northern Sami: hetero — a heterosexual organism
- Skolt-Sami: heteroseksuaal — a heterosexual organism
- Skolt-Sami: hetero — a heterosexual organism
- Scottish Gaelic: iol-ghnèitheach — a heterosexual organism
- Slovak: heterosexuál — a heterosexual organism
- Slovak: heterosexuálka — a heterosexual organism
- Spanish: heterosexual — a heterosexual organism
- Spanish: hetero — a heterosexual organism
- Swedish: hetero — a heterosexual organism
- Tajik: дигарҷинсгаро (digarjinsgaro) — a heterosexual organism
- Turkish: heteroseksüel — a heterosexual organism
- Volapük: votageniälan — a heterosexual organism