Synonyms for heterosexual
ˌhɛt ər əˈsɛk ʃu əlhet·ero·sex·u·al

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1. heterosexualnoun

   Antonyms:
   homosexual

2. heterosexualnoun

   Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.

   Antonyms:
   homosexual

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1. heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straightadjective

   a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex

   Synonyms:
   straight person, heterosexual person, straight, straightaway

   Antonyms:
   queer, homophile(a), homoerotic, lesbian, tribadistic, butch, transvestic, transgendered, homosexual, bisexual, gay, sapphic, transgender, pederastic, paederastic, transsexual(a), transvestite

2. heterosexualadjective

   sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex

   Antonyms:
   butch, transgendered, queer, tribadistic, homosexual, pederastic, sapphic, homophile(a), homoerotic, transgender, bisexual, transvestic, paederastic, gay, transvestite, transsexual(a), lesbian

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1. List of paraphrases for "heterosexual":

   opposite-sex, hetero, straight

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1. Scott Smith:

   It has been so hard to keep my mouth shut and wait this out. It has been the most powerless thing I’ve ever been through, i don’t care if he’s homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, transsexual. He’s a sexual predator.

2. Shaun Mellors:

   The fundamentalist religious right has loads of money and is coming in Africa to talk to members of parliament and first ladies and share family values, as in traditional heterosexual family values.

3. David Frederick:

   All groups of men -- gay, bisexual, heterosexual -- orgasm more than all groups of women, lesbian women orgasm more often than heterosexual women but less often than men.

4. Bruce Jenner:

   I am not gay, i am, as far as I know, heterosexual. I've always been with a woman, raising kids.

5. Mike Huckabee:

   Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.