bi-curious

or bi·cu·ri·ous, bi cu·rious

[ bahy-kyoor-ee-uhs ]

adjective

1. curious about or open to exploring sexual relations with people of a different gender than those to whom one is usually attracted:

   a bi-curious teen who later came out as bisexual.

bi-curious

adjective

1. considering experimenting with bisexuality

Other Words From

• bi-cu·ri·os·i·ty [bahy-ky, oo, r-ee-, os, -i-tee], noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bi-curious¹

First recorded in 1980–85; bi(sexual) + curious

Example Sentences

Bernstein and Woodward exchanged flirtatious messages, and Woodward suggested that he was bi-curious.

From Los Angeles Times

The CEO said there was also more than 100% growth in bi-curious members on the app.

From BBC

Out of that came “Gemini Moon” and “Pretty Girls,” which captured both artists’ frustration about straight people flirting with bi-curious flings: “You say that I’m your favorite/With your hand between my thighs/Tell me if you were gonna/That I would be the one you tried.”

From Seattle Times

I’m wondering whether he’s possibly in denial about being bi-curious because of his conservative family.

From Washington Post

Today, younger people who use “L.G.B.T.” or its longer variants do so primarily as shorthand for a range of options, from asexual to pansexual to questioning to intersex to trans-masc to bi-curious, among theoretically limitless other possibilities, the embrace of any one of which does not have to be a permanent thing.

From New York Times