Synonyms for SEX
sɛkssex

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.8 / 5 votes

1. sexnoun

   Sexual intercourse; the act of sexual intercourse.

   Synonyms:
   sexual intercourse, coitus

2. sexnoun

   Synonyms:
   gender

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. sex

   Sex is a distinction among living beings; it is also the characteristic by which most living beings are distinguished from inanimate things, which are of no sex; gender is a distinction in language partially corresponding to this distinction in nature; while there are but two sexes, there are in some languages, as in English and German, three genders. The French language has but two genders and makes the names of all inanimate objects either masculine or feminine; some languages are without the distinction of gender, and those that maintain it are often quite arbitrary in its application. We speak of the masculine or feminine gender, the male or female sex.

   Synonyms:
   gender

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activitynoun

   activities associated with sexual intercourse

   "they had sex in the back seat"

   Synonyms:
   sexual practice, sex, sexual activity, sexuality, sex activity, sexual urge, gender

2. sexnoun

   either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided

   "the war between the sexes"

   Synonyms:
   sexual practice, sexual activity, sexuality, sex activity, sexual urge, gender

3. sex, sexual urgenoun

   all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses

   "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film contained no sex or violence"

   Synonyms:
   sexual practice, sex, sexual activity, sexuality, sex activity, sexual urge, gender

4. sex, gender, sexualityverb

   the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles

   "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"

   Synonyms:
   sexual urge, grammatical gender, sexuality, sex, sexual practice, sexual activity, gender, sex activity

5. arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind upverb

   stimulate sexually

   "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

   Synonyms:
   wind, trip out, kindle, charge, excite, end up, arouse, put forward, awake, trip, shake up, shake, come alive, get off, commove, energize, perk up, agitate, hinge on, enkindle, wake up, stir, wake, elicit, energise, finish, stimulate, fire, rouse, finish up, bring up, depend upon, conjure up, fetch up, ride, depend on, devolve on, land up, hinge upon, raise, waken, turn on, call down, provoke, wind up, call forth, invoke, charge up, awaken, brace, evoke, sex, conjure, switch on

6. sexverb

   tell the sex (of young chickens)

   Synonyms:
   wind up, arouse, excite, turn on

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1. sexnoun

   Associated words:
   sexual, gender, bisexual, unisexual, epicene, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditism, androgyne, androgyny, gonad

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "sex":

   gender, sexual, love, sexuality, intercourse, sexes, sex-, sex-standardized, six, sexually, nationality, gender-, sex-specific, obscene

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1. Entertainer Penn Jillette:

   These people are not being asked to engage in gay sex or even endorse gay sex, they're being asked to sell flowers and cake to people.

2. Robby Hayes:

   Im not sitting there with a camera aimed down and trying to get the angles, like, we got caught on the security camera, basically. It was a puppy camera in her friends living room, the couch we crashed on. No consent from either end, which kind of debunks [the sex tape claim].

3. Carly Fiorina:

   Sex should not be one of the criteria that the committee uses and I'm quite confident I'll be on the debate stage.

4. Rumbold Seidelman:

   To protect themselves, it's very important for same-sex couples to secure their parentage by obtaining a court order of adoption or order of parentage from a court since court orders are entitled to full faith and credit, couples -- especially in hostile states -- should not rely on their marriage, or both being on the birth certificate, to secure their parental relationship to their child.

5. Claire McCaskill:

   I did n’t go to one of those fancy private schools, but the history I learned in public schools Mizzou taught me that the evidence of trafficking of women for sex goes back to before 2000 B.C. It did n’t begin with women’s rights and the birth control pill.