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Adjective: neuter  n(y)oo-tu(r)
  1. Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
    - sexless
     
  2. Neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)
    "'it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
Noun: neuter  n(y)oo-tu(r)
  1. A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
Verb: neuter  n(y)oo-tu(r)
  1. Remove the ovaries of
    "Is your cat neutered?";
    - alter, spay, castrate

Derived forms: neutering, neuters, neutered

See also: asexual, nonsexual

Type of: desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, fix, gender, grammatical gender, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, unsex

Antonym: feminine, masculine

Encyclopedia: Neuter