ambisexual

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
  • Filling the stage with androgynous women dressed in black and making sometimes terrifying use of pure white light and heavy industrial techno, the latest interpretative dance extravaganza appeared to be a Lynchian comment on the parlous state of today’s world.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 July 2025
  • The latter show also featured Sweeney attempting to make amends for the androgynous caricature.
    Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • These disadvantages predict that unisexual species should go extinct within at most 100,000 generations.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This provides both benefits and pitfalls for the less-mobile unisexual females.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017
Adjective
  • The genderless juice brings to mind vast open skies.
    Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • So there are these moments where fashion is expressed in this genderless form—-it’s all about freedom.
    Essence, Essence, 17 June 2025

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“Ambisexual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambisexual. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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