bisexual
adjective
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Usage of Bisexual
While educational and advocacy groups tend to define bisexual broadly as applying to sexual or romantic attraction to members of one's own gender identity as well as to members of other gender identities, the older, narrower application describing attraction to male and female people persists among English speakers, aided, no doubt, by the word's morphology: the prefix bi- means "two." Note that while the broader meaning of bisexual can be understood as occupying the same semantic territory as pansexual, there are people who identify as one but not the other, as well as people who identify as both.
Examples of bisexual in a Sentence
James Frater, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Crushing one of prestige television’s few bisexual characters to death?
—Catherine Mhloyi, Them., 29 Oct. 2025
The tulip, the rose, and the lily are bisexual or perfect flowers containing both male and female reproductive parts.
—Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
The movie’s frank depiction of Mishima’s bisexual obsessions and radical political drive, not to mention the involvement of foreign filmmakers like Schrader, Coppola and Lucas, drew a boycott from Mishima’s widow and incensed the ultra-right-wing political groups that continued to lionize him.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
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Cite this Entry
“Bisexual.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bisexual. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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bisexual
adjective
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bisexual
1 of 2 adjective
bisexual
2 of 2 noun
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