opposite sex
Noun
Meaning
Women in relation to men or men in relation to women.
(attributively) 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.
Antonyms
Examples
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.
Shaking hands with the strangers of opposite sex is forbidden.
I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.
Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.