Thesaurus:homosexual

Thesaurus

homosexual

English

Adjective

Sense: attracted to the same sex, whether male or female

Synonyms

• homophile (dated)
• homosexual
• like that (idiomatic, euphemistic)
• queer (sometimes pejorative)
• similisexual (obsolete)
• that way (idiomatic, euphemistic)

Hyponyms

• bent
• gay    [⇒ thesaurus]
• faggy
• light in the loafers
• poncy (chiefly Britain, derogatory, informal)
• sodomitical (archaic)
• Uranian (archaic)
• uranistic (archaic)
• butch (sometimes pejorative)
• lesbian
• mannish
• Sapphic

Antonyms

• hetero
• heterosexual    [⇒ thesaurus]
• straight

Various

• dykey
• same-sex

See also

• Thesaurus:gay man
• Thesaurus:gay woman
• Thesaurus:happy
• Thesaurus:homosexual person

Further reading

• “homosexual” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• Terminology of homosexuality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia