Queer

//kwɪə//

Synonyms for "queer" (471 found)

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Closest matches (95)

Strong matches (141)

Noun(10 words)

dicklicker fag faggot fagot fairy funny money gay bob gay man gay person iron

different disable disenable disoriented distorted distraught divergent dizzy dotty doubtful drain dressed up droll dubious dummy dyke eccentric effeminate embarrass embellished

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Adjective(29 words)

different differing discrepant disease-ridden diseased dissimilar diverse eerie eldritch errant exceptional extraordinary fey forby freak freakish freaky fremd funny heteroclite

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hinky homophile homosexual ill incongruitous incongruous infect infected irregular

Verb(5 words)

endanger expose foil frustrate invalidate

Adjective(3 words)

funny gay homophile

Related words (235)

Adjective(51 words)

kooky lgbt light in the loafers like that monstrous morbid morbific morbose nonstandard odd other out of the ordinary outlandish outré peculiar poncy prodigious quaint queer as a clockwork orange queer as a coot

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lame laughable lesbian light-headed loco loony louse up ludicrous lunatic mad maddened maggoty maim make believe make-believe man made man-made manic mannish mar

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mazed mental mentally deficient meshuggah mess up mock moon struck moon-struck muck up muddle muff mysterious nance non compos non compos mentis not all there not right nuts nutty obsessed odd oddball of unsound mind off off the wall offbeat out outlandish outre pansy passing strange pathic peculiar perverted phony pinchbeck play hell with play hob with pole smoker poorly potty pretended pseudo psycho punk put put on put-on puzzling quaint qualmish qualmy quasi queasy queen queer the works questionable quirky quizzical reasonless remarkable ridiculous rubber check ruin sabotage sapphic sapphist screw up screwball screwy self-styled senseless shady sham shoddy sick simulated singular sink snafu snarl up so called so-called soi-disant spike spoil spurious squeamish stark-mad stark-staring mad strange supposititious suspect suspicious swish synthetic tetched thwart tin tinsel titivated touched transvestite tribade tribadistic twisted unauthentic unbalanced uncanny uncommon unconventional uncouth undermine unearthly uneasy unexampled unfit ungenuine unhinged unnatural unorthodox unparalleled unreal unsane unsettled unsound unusual unwell vertiginous wacky wandering warped weaken weird whimsical wing witless wondrous strange wreck

Adverb(2 words)

mighty wicked

Verb(10 words)

mommick peril pollute queerify scotch scupper soil spoil thwart upset the applecart

Noun(8 words)

nance pansy poof poove pouf queen shit-stabber snide

Adjective(5 words)

odd peculiar rum rummy singular

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

15 entries

LGBTQ QUILTBAG affect bear on bear upon forbid foreclose forestall gay man impact preclude prevent shirtlifter touch touch on

Synonyms

6 entries

fagot funny funny money homophile invalidate thwart

derived

85 entries

Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism Queer Street QueerTok Quidditch anarcha-queer antiqueer as queer as Dick's hatband baby queer catch the queer cisqueer cripqueer cyberqueer gear queer genderqueer heteroqueer

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etymologically related_to

1 entries

thwart

has context

9 entries

britain broadly definite derogatory dialect slang social science uk vulgar

is a

2 entries

lgbtq plurisexual

manner of

1 entries

affect

related to

29 entries

appear asexual banter bisexual counterfeit gender heterosexual homosexual identity ineffective money null odd puzzle quality queer theory

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similar

3 entries

homosexual strange unusual

Translations

135 translations across 36 languages.

Arabic

1 entries

كْوِير adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

kuir adj (slang: homosexual)
mavi adj (slang: homosexual)

Bulgarian

2 entries

извратен adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
хомосексуален adj (slang: homosexual)

Catalan

2 entries

marica adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
marieta adj (slang: homosexual)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

酷儿 adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
酷兒 /酷儿 adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Czech

1 entries

děsně adv (slang: very)

Danish

2 entries

bøsse adj (slang: homosexual)
queer adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Dutch

4 entries

homo adj (slang: homosexual)
homoseksueel adj (slang: homosexual)
janet noun (slang: person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity)
nicht noun (slang: person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity)

Esperanto

4 entries

GLATa adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
geja adj (slang: homosexual)
gejaĉa adj (slang: homosexual)
kvira adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Finnish

4 entries

hintti adj (slang: homosexual)
homo adj (slang: homosexual)
pervo adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
sateenkaari adj (slang: homosexual)

French

4 entries

gay adj (slang: homosexual)
pédé adj (slang: homosexual)
queer adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
diablement adv (slang: very)

Galician

4 entries

cazolas adj (slang: homosexual)
conequé adj (slang: homosexual)
lareiro adj (slang: homosexual)
lariqueiro adj (slang: homosexual)

Georgian

3 entries

ქვიარი adj (slang: homosexual)
ქვიარი adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
ქვიარული adj (slang: homosexual)

German

4 entries

homo adj (slang: homosexual)
lesbisch adj (slang: homosexual)
queer adj (slang: homosexual)
queer adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Hebrew

3 entries

קְוִּויר adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
קווירית adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
קְוִּויר noun (slang: person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity)

Hungarian

2 entries

buzi adj (slang: homosexual)
queer adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Icelandic

2 entries

hinsegin adj (slang: homosexual)
hinsegin adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Indonesian

4 entries

belok adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
hombreng adj (slang: homosexual)
homo adj (slang: homosexual)
maho adj (slang: homosexual)

Irish

2 entries

aiteach adj (slang: homosexual)
aiteach adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Italian

4 entries

checca adj (slang: homosexual)
finocchio adj (slang: homosexual)
frocio adj (slang: homosexual)
invertito adj (slang: homosexual)

Japanese

1 entries

クィア adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Ladino

4 entries

blando adj (slang: homosexual)
karucha adj (slang: homosexual)
kulampara adj (slang: homosexual)
kulandrero adj (slang: homosexual)

Latvian

1 entries

kvīrs adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Macedonian

1 entries

настран adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Northern Sami

2 entries

bonju adj (slang: homosexual)
bonju adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Norwegian

4 entries

homse adj (slang: homosexual)
skeiv adj (slang: homosexual)
skeiv adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
soper adj (slang: homosexual)

Polish

2 entries

queerowy adj (slang: homosexual)
queerowy adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Portuguese

4 entries

abafa-palhinha adj (slang: homosexual)
bambi adj (slang: homosexual)
bicha adj (slang: homosexual)
borboleta adj (slang: homosexual)

Russian

2 entries

голубо́й adj (slang: homosexual)
гомосексуали́ст adj (slang: homosexual)

Réunion Creole French

1 entries

kwir adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)

Spanish

4 entries

cuir adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
joto adj (slang: homosexual)
julay adj (slang: homosexual)
marica adj (slang: homosexual)

Swedish

4 entries

queer adj (slang: homosexual)
queer adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
fett adv (slang: very)
grymt adv (slang: very)

Tamil

4 entries

குயர் adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
பால்புது adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
பால்புதுமை adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
குயர் noun (slang: person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity)

Turkish

4 entries

kuir adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
kuir lubunya adj (slang: homosexual)
queer adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
kuir noun (slang: person of atypical sexuality or sexual identity)

Ukrainian

4 entries

гомосексуа́льний adj (slang: homosexual)
кві́рний adj (pertaining to non-normative sexuality)
лесбійський adj (slang: homosexual)
ґейський adj (slang: homosexual)

Zazaki

1 entries

nerimako adj (slang: homosexual)

Sample sentences

51 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

What a queer story!

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He is really a queer fellow!

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He had a queer expression on his face.

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Queer rumors about them were in the air.

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