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
Various
See also
Further reading
- “homosexual” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- Terminology of homosexuality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia