Adjective: neuter n(y)oo-tu(r)
- Neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)
"‘it’ is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
- Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
"Worker bees are neuter";
- sexless
- A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
"In German, 'das Buch' (the book) is in the neuter gender"
- Remove the ovaries of
"Is your cat neutered?";
- alter, spay, castrate
- Make neutral, ineffective or powerless
"The amendment was designed to neuter the legislation's key provisions"
Derived forms: neutered, neutering, neuters
Type of: desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, fix, gender, grammatical gender, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, unsex
Encyclopedia: Neuter