bi-curious

American  

[bahy-kyoor-ee-uhs] / baɪˈkyʊər i əs /

Or bicurious,

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.

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bi-curious British  

adjective

1. considering experimenting with bisexuality

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Other Word Forms

• bi-curiosity noun

Etymology

Origin of bi-curious

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

Example Sentences

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

Characters are gay, straight, bi-curious, and poly.

From Salon

Gay and bi-curious male followers are welcome, too.

From New York Times

Dear Amy: You missed an important point to "Bi-Curious" in your response about bisexuality.

From Washington Post