sexually
/ˈsɛksjʊəli/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a sexual manner; erotically.
adv
With respect to sex (either of the two divisions of organisms).
adv
By means of sexual intercourse.
Example Sentences
- "She kissed him sexually."
- "The firm discriminated sexually in its hiring and retention practices."
- "He was sexually active by the age of fifteen."
- "AIDS and gonorrhea are sexually transmitted diseases."
- "A parrot is a sexually reproducing organism."
- "NBC, never shy about exploiting a celebrity tragedy, overproduced and overpromoted her film in “Farrah’s Story,” but never made the public service point that, besides abstinence, the HPV vaccine is the most promising form of prevention against this type of cancer, which in most cases is sexually acquired."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder. Proto-Italic *seksus Proto-Indo-European *sek- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *sékh₁yeti Proto-Italic *sekaō Latin secō Latin secāre? Latin sexus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin sexuālisbor. English sexual Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English sexually From sexual + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more sexually (comparative)
most sexually (superlative)