Meaning

2 senses
  1. Women in relation to men or men in relation to women.

  2. (attributive)Heterosexual, or otherwise relating to a relationship between a woman and a man.

    The divorce rate for opposite sex marriages is increasing.

    He doesn't believe opposite sex friendships are possible.

    anderes Geschlecht

    противополо́жный полprotivopolóžnyj pol

    протиле́жна статьprotyléžna statʹ

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Yanni has an opposite-sex friend.

  2. Yanni doesn't maintain any opposite-sex friendship.

  3. Yanni wants to attract the opposite sex better.

  4. She feels very shy in the presence of the opposite sex.

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  5. It was then I became occupied in liquidating members of the opposite sex.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Forms

plural: opposite sexes

Antonyms

1 antonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
opposite sex — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto