Meaning

Possessing the sex organs of both sexes..

Definitions by Sense

1. Possessing the sex organs of both sexes.
2. Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.
3. Possessing qualities of both sexes.
4. (computer hardware) Of a connector or docking port, able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting to solely male or solely female connectors or ports.

Example Sentences

Nicknames like Pat, Sam, and Chris are androgynous, used by both men and women.

And I was taught that to be an actress, one should be fashionable, and to be fashionable is to be androgynous. And I am androgynous not less than David Bowie himself.

My name is androgynous, in pronunciation at least – Lauren sounds like the more masculine Loren.

All the men call me Kim. Suitably androgynous, I suppose. But all the sisters in Bugis St call me by my initials KC.

The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous.

The androgynous creative deity was best supplicated or propitiated by offerings concerned with the pleasures of the flesh. In such circumstances, to the worshipper as to the god, licentiousness was not a sin: on the contrary, it was a duty.

APAS is an androgynous docking system, so – in principle, at least – any APAS-equipped vehicle should be able to hook up with any other, without having to worry about matching male with female ports.

Word Forms

• more androgynous
• most androgynous
• androgenous

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Use androgynous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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