neuter

Meanings

Plural: neuters

Noun

• a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
• 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.
• One who has been neutered; eunuch.
• The act of neutering (typically an animal)
• A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
• The neuter gender.
• A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
• An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

Verb

• remove the ovaries of
• To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
• To rid of sexuality.
• To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
• To make grammatically neuter.

Adjective

• of grammatical gender
  • "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"

Adjective Satellite

• having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

Adj

• Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
• Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
• Intransitive.
• Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
• Sexless, nonsexual.
• Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

feminine, masculine

Anagrams of neuter