English Explanatory Dictionary

neuter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
  2. Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
  3. Intransitive.
  4. Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
  5. Sexless, nonsexual.
  6. Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
noun
  1. 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.
  2. One who has been neutered; eunuch.
  3. The act of neutering (typically an animal)
  4. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
  5. The neuter gender.
  6. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
  7. An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
verb
  1. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
  2. To rid of sexuality.
  3. To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
  4. To make grammatically neuter.

Pronunciation

/ˈnjuːtə/ /ˈn(j)utɚ/ en-us-neuter.ogg

Word forms

neuter more neuter most neuter n. n ntr neuters neutering neutered

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“whether”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English whether and neither.

Synonyms

impartial neutral candid cold clinical detached egal equal equitable evenhanded fairhanded fair-minded disinterested dispassionate imprejudicate indifferent indistinguishing neuter nonaligned nonpartial nonpartisan nonpersonal objective unbiased unbigoted uninterested unpartial unpartisan unprejudiced unprepossessed intransitive asexual genderless sexless platonic unsexual fixed gelded neutered spayed castrate desex doctor fix spay

Derived words

neuter voice neuter gender neuterdom neuterism neuterlike neuterly neuterness neuticles nonneuter

Translations

Bulgarian: непрехо́ден глаго́л Japanese: 無変化動詞 Latin: verbum neutrum Russian: неперехо́дный глаго́л
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