Thesaurus: neuter
Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
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Definitions
- a. Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
- a. Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.
- a. Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.
- a. Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
- n. A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
- n. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- n. An intransitive verb.
- n. 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; esp., 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.
- adj. neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)
- adj. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
- n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
- v. remove the ovaries of