the opposite sex

noun

: the people who are not the same sex : the other sex

—used by men to refer to women or by women to refer to men

He's never been comfortable around (members of) the opposite sex.

Examples of the opposite sex in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Advanced students can find the famous tape of them performing at a Harvard mixer, doing a cute song about how self-conscious everyone felt around the opposite sex. —Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares referred LCPS to federal authorities, accusing the school agency of improperly targeting three male students not for misconduct, but for expressing discomfort about sharing a locker room with a member of the opposite sex, according to Fox 5 DC. —Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025

The study also examined six cockatoos from the Wagga Wagga zoo in Australia, pairing them with birds of the opposite sex, and exposing them to different settings including music, podcasts and silence. —Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for the opposite sex

• annex
• annexe
• apex
• aztecs
• carex
• codecs
• codex
• convex
• cusecs
• duplex
• execs
• fedex