Neuter

Quick meaning: Neuter is an adjective meaning (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

Meaning

(now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

More Meanings

1. (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
2. (grammar) Intransitive.
3. (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
4. (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
5. (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
6. (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
7. (biology) 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.

Example Sentences

a neuter noun

the neuter gender

a neuter termination

the neuter definite article

Word Forms

• neuters
• neutering
• neutered

Synonyms for neuter

Depending on context, synonyms include castrate, desex, doctor, fix, spay, impartial.

Antonyms for neuter

Common opposites include masculine, feminine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include asexual, nonsexual, sexless, alter, spay, neut.

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