Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/kæsˈtɹɑː.təʊ/ · noun
A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice..
A castrato stepped forward, a slender / young man with earnest grey eyes.
As contexts shift, so does generational taste. Just ask the castrati – the high-voiced boy singers displaced when Enlightenment liberalism restored female performers to the stage.
Nowadays, either women or countertenors take the castrato roles.
Use castrato when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Castrato means A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A castrato stepped forward, a slender / young man with earnest grey eyes.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.