Definition of HOMOSEXUAL

homosexual

Plural: homosexuals

Noun

  • someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex
  • A person who is sexually attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex.

Adjective

  • sexually attracted to members of your own sex

Adj

  • Sexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.)
  • Between two people of the same sex; gay.
  • Intended for or used by homosexuals, as a nightclub, a bar, etc.

Examples

  • Most western countries have repealed laws against homosexual activity between consenting adults.
  • No, it wouldn't make a difference if the applicant was homosexual.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from German homosexual, from homo- (“same”) + sexual (“relating to sex or sexuality”), coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd ed. 1887, in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual.

Synonyms

gay, homo, homophile, This section is divided into two tables, Uranian, and that some of the derogatory ones are often used humorously and non-derogatorily by gay people and others, carpet muncher, dyke, faggot, fairy, finook, flamer, fruit, homosexual, invert, lesbian, light in the loafers, like that, moffie, muff-diver, nance, nancy, nancy boy, note that the non-derogatory terms can nonetheless be used derogatorily, of either sex* bugger, of either sex* gay, one containing synonyms that generally are not derogatory and one containing those that generally are. However, only of men* company man, only of men* fag, only of women* lesbian, only of women* lesbo, pansy, pederast, pole-smoker, poofter, queen, queer, same-sex, same-sexer, sapphist, scissor sister, similisexual, sodomite, swish, that way

Scrabble Score: 22

homosexual: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
homosexual: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
homosexual: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 24

homosexual: valid Words With Friends Word