Adjective: homosexual
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more homosexual |
| Superlative | most homosexual |
Sample Sentences
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No, it wouldn't make a difference if the applicant was homosexual.
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[H]e said he had never noticed anything homosexual in himself. [1892 [1889], Charles Gilbert Chaddock, transl., Psychopathia Sexualis, Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, translation of Psychopathia Sexualis by R. von Krafft-Ebing, page 97:]
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"Significant results indicate that Swedes would choose a more masculine partner the more homosexual they are, and that Finns would choose a more attractive partner the more homosexual they are." [1983, Michael W. Ross, Homosexuality and Social Sex Roles:]
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Most western countries have repealed laws against homosexual activity between consenting adults.
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Shatner: Have you ever had a homosexual experience?
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Maher: No. Why, are you...? But it's early! [2022 March 20, Bill Maher, William Shatner, 56:37 from the start, in William Shatner, Club Random With Bill Maher, episode 1, Club Random Podcast, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022:]
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A petition drive to close all homosexual establishments in response to an assumed general AIDS contagion was begun in late October, according to The Weekly News of Miami. [1983 December 24, “Effort To Close Gay Businesses Underway”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 2:]
Adjectives inflected like homosexual
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
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. See: German Adjectives '
homosexual'.
Verbs referencing "homosexual"
Dutch Adjectives
homoseksueel, Polish Adjectives
homoseksualny.