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neuter
DEFINITIONS OF:
neuter
1
adj
having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
Synonyms:
sexless
asexual
,
nonsexual
not having or involving sex
adj
of grammatical gender
“`it' is the third-person singular
neuter
pronoun”
Antonyms:
masculine
of grammatical gender
feminine
of grammatical gender
masculine
associated with men and not with women
feminine
associated with women and not with men
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n
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
Type of:
gender
,
grammatical gender
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
v
remove the ovaries of
Synonyms:
alter
,
castrate
,
spay
Types:
defeminise
,
defeminize
remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)
Type of:
desex
,
desexualise
,
desexualize
,
fix
,
sterilise
,
sterilize
,
unsex
make infertile
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