Neuter Definition

no͝otər, nyo͝o-
neutered, neuters
adjective
Having no sexual organ; asexual.
Webster's New World
Designating, of, or belonging to a third gender, existing in many highly inflected languages, consisting of words that have neither masculine nor feminine grammatical gender.
Webster's New World
Having undeveloped or imperfect sexual organs in the adult, as the worker bee.
Webster's New World
Neither active nor passive; intransitive.
Webster's New World
Having pistils and stamens that are nonfunctional or absent.
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noun
neuters
The neuter gender.
Webster's New World
A castrated or spayed animal.
Webster's New World
A word or form in this gender.
Webster's New World
An androgynous or asexual person.
American Heritage
A plant or animal lacking, or having undeveloped, sexual organs.
Webster's New World
verb
neutered, neuters
To castrate or spay (an animal)
Webster's New World
To render ineffective or powerless.
A scandal that neutered the politician.
American Heritage

To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

Wiktionary

To rid of sexuality.

Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Neuter

Noun

Singular:
neuter
Plural:
neuters

Origin of Neuter

  • Middle English neutre from Old French from Latin neuter neither, neuter ne- not ne in Indo-European roots uter either kwo- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin, from ne (“not") + uter (“whether"); compare English whether and neither.

    From Wiktionary

Neuter Sentence Examples

  • If you can't afford to neuter a kitten then don't have one.

  • The New English Dictionary points out that whereas the old Teutonic type of the word is neuter, corresponding to the Latin numen, in the Christian applications it becomes masculine, and that even where the earlier neuter form is still kept, as in Gothic and Old Norwegian, the construction is masculine.

  • We may observe, however, that while the latter term is used to denote the virtuous man, and (in the neuter) equivalent to End generally, the former is rather chosen to express the quality of virtuous acts which in any particular case is the end of the virtuous agent.

  • Like the former, he believes in a supreme personal God, possessing all gracious qualities (saguna), not in the quality-less (nirguna) neuter impersonal Brahman of Sankaracharya; this Lord Himself once took the human form, and became incarnate, for the blessing of mankind, as Rama.

  • Associated with these males are neuter zooids, which usually possess no functional repro ductive organs, but have in I -...

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Words Starting With

NNENEU

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RERTER

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