sexual

/ˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/

/ˈsɛkʃuəl/

Anything that's related to reproduction can be described as sexual. It's also used to describe an intimate kind of attraction that occurs between people.

Sexual reproduction happens in animals (including people) when a female's egg and a male's sperm fuse together and go through a process of cell division which results in a baby — or a litter of baby animals. People also use this adjective for things that are connected to or suggest sex, in both the "intimate contact" sense, and also the physical differences that define men and women.

Definitions of sexual

1. adjective

   of or relating to or characterized by sexuality
   “sexual orientation”

   “sexual distinctions”
2. adjective

   having or involving sex
   “sexual reproduction”

   “sexual spores”

   synonyms:

   intersexual

   existing or occurring between the sexes

   sexed

   having sexual differentiation

   unisexual

   relating to only one sex or having only one type of sexual organ; not hermaphroditic

   antonyms:

   asexual

   not having or involving sex

   agamic, agamogenetic, agamous, apomictic, parthenogenetic

   (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction

   fissiparous

   reproducing by fission

   neuter, sexless

   having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

   vegetal, vegetative

   (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
3. adjective

   involved in a sexual relationship
   synonyms: intimate

   sexy

   marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest