Kinky

English

Adjective

Kinky (comparative kinkier, superlative kinkiest)

1. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.

   kinky hair

2. Queer; eccentric; crotchety.
3. (slang) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.

Derived terms

• kinkiness

Thesaurus

Bohemian, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, beat, bizarre, breakaway, capricious, crank, crankish, cranky, crimped, crisp, crisped, crispy, crotchety, curled, curly, degenerate, depraved, deviant, deviative, different, divergent, dotty, eccentric, erratic, exceptional, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, far out, fey, flaky, freakish, free and easy, fringy, frizzed, frizzly, frizzy, funny, harebrained, heretical, heterodox, hippie, humorsome, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, informal, irregular, kinked, knotted, kooky, maggoty, maverick, moody, motiveless, not cricket, not done, not kosher, notional, nutty, odd, oddball, offbeat, original, outlandish, outre, peculiar, perverted, petulant, queer, quirky, screwball, screwy, singular, strange, tangled, temperamental, twisted, ultra, unconventional, unfashionable, unique, unnatural, unorthodox, unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, wacky, wanton, warped, way out, wayward, weird, whimsical, wiry

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈkɪŋ.ki/

  Rhymes: -ɪŋki

Translations

full of kinks

Finnish: sykkyräinen (fi), sykeröinen (fi), säkkärä (fi) Hungarian: göndör (hu), csomós (hu)

Russian: курчявый (ru)

queer

Finnish: outo (fi), omituinen (fi) Hungarian: hóbortos (hu), bogaras (hu)

Russian: эксцентричный (ru), своеобразный (ru)

marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior

Dutch: kinky (nl) Hungarian: perverz (hu), szexéhes (hu)

Norwegian: kinky (no) Russian: извращённый (ru)