ambisexual

Definition of ambisexualnext
as in androgynous
suitable to or for either sex The glasses were designed to be ambisexual, making them work with all sorts of styles.

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Recent Examples of ambisexual Ferris delivers that speech in the shower while wearing a punk’s shampoo Mohawk, then an ambisexual head turban. Armond White, National Review, 4 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambisexual
Adjective
  • Roberts went for an androgynous look to claim her second Golden Globe for her work in Pretty Woman, wearing a pinstriped jacket dress and miniskirt with nothing underneath.
    Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 11 Jan. 2026
  • David Bowie personally appears on the cover of 24 of his solo albums, depicting himself as a bowl-cut heartthrob, an androgynous blond, a space alien in human disguise, a cigarette-smoking lounge creature, a sideways pair of legs, and an oddly undersized boxer.
    Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • These disadvantages predict that unisexual species should go extinct within at most 100,000 generations.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Not unisexual mole salamanders, which reproduce primarily by cloning and sometimes snatch other species' sperm to kickstart their reproductive systems.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017
Adjective
  • The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Today’s feminism seems to want this model to be genderless.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025

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“Ambisexual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambisexual. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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