Neuter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Grammar Neither masculine nor feminine in gender.
  • adj. Grammar Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs.
  • adj. Biology Having undeveloped or imperfectly developed sexual organs: the neuter caste in social insects.
  • adj. Botany Having no pistils or stamens; asexual.
  • adj. Zoology Sexually undeveloped.
  • adj. Taking no side; neutral.
  • n. Grammar The neuter gender.
  • n. Grammar A neuter word.
  • n. Grammar A neuter noun.
  • n. A castrated animal.
  • n. A sexually undeveloped or imperfectly developed insect, such as a worker bee.
  • n. A plant without stamens or pistils.
  • n. One that is neutral.
  • v. To castrate or spay.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
  • adj. Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex.
  • adj. Intransitive
  • adj. Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
  • n. The neuter gender.
  • n. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
  • n. An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
  • n. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
  • n. An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
  • v. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
  • v. To rid of sexuality
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
  • adj.
  • adj. Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex
  • adj. Intransitive.
  • adj. Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
  • n. A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
  • n.
  • n. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
  • n. An intransitive verb.
  • n. An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
  • v. To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; -- in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Neither the one thing nor the other; not adhering to either party; taking no part with either side, as in a contention or discussion; neutral.
  • In gram.:
  • Of neither gender; neither masculine nor feminine: used when words are grammatically or formally distinguished as masculine, feminine, and neuter—a distinction made in English only in the pronouns he, she, it.
  • Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Abbreviated n. and neuter
  • In botany, same as neutral.
  • In zoology, having no fully developed sex: as, neuter bees.
  • n. A neutral.
  • n. An animal of neither sex, and incapable of propagation; one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as ants and bees, which perform all the labors of the community; a worker. See cuts under bee, Atta, and Termes.
  • n. In botany, a plant which has neither stamens nor pistils. See cut under neutral.
  • n. In grammar, a noun of the neuter gender. Abbreviated n. and neuter
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of grammatical gender
  • n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
  • adj. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
  • v. remove the ovaries of
  • Equivalent
    asexual    nonsexual   
    Verb Form
    neutered    neutering    neuters   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    neutral   
    Hyponym
    castrate    spay   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    impartial    neutral    intransitive    alter    fix    desex    asexual    barren    spay    castrate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Souter    commuter    computer    cooter    cuter    hooter    looter    luter    microcomputer    minicomputer   
    Same Context
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