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[ noo-ter, nyoo- ] / ˈnu tər, ˈnyu- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR neuter ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveGrammar. - noting or pertaining to a gender that refers to things classed as neither masculine nor feminine.
- (of a verb) intransitive.
Biology. having no organs of reproduction; without sex; asexual. Zoology. having imperfectly developed sexual organs, as the worker bees and ants. Botany. having neither stamens nor pistils; asexual. neutral; siding with no one. nounGrammar. - the neuter gender.
- a noun of that gender.
- another element marking that gender.
- an intransitive verb.
an animal made sterile by castration or spaying. Zoology. a neuter insect. a person or thing that is neutral. verb (used with object)Veterinary Science. to spay or castrate (a dog, cat, etc.). Origin of neuter1350–1400; <Latin neuter neither (of two), equivalent to ne not + uter either (of two); replacing Middle English neutre<Middle French <Latin, as above Words nearby neuterNeuss, neuston, Neustria, Neustrian, neut., neuter, neutercane, Neutra, neutral, neutral axis, neutral corner Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for neuterShe says the Humane Society would like to enforce spay and neuter laws to the point where there would be no purebred dogs left. The Sleazy War on the Humane Society|Center for Public Integrity|August 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST It seeks to neuter the criticism of any lurking Paltrow naysayers wishing to transfer their negativity to Lively. Blake Lively Gets Her GOOP On|Tim Teeman|July 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Take that away, or neuter the violence too much, and enrollment drops. Steve James and Christopher Nowinski Talk the New Doc ‘Head Games’|Kevin Fallon|September 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST Pro: “My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working & nothing after all.” Do We Need a Guide to Marriage?|Chloë Schama|January 8, 2011|DAILY BEAST
It's just an attempt to neuter any Tea Party support for conservative candidates who happen to have an R by their names. Ticking Off the Tea Party Crowd|Benjamin Sarlin|March 4, 2010|DAILY BEAST Other animals are not distinguished as to sex, but are spoken of as neuter, the sex being of no consequence. An English Grammar|W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell His pronoun hit antedates English itself, being the Anglo-Saxon neuter of he. Our Southern Highlanders|Horace Kephart But the Attic writers often use it as a neuter word; and the genitive case, as they use it, is . The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenus|Athenus The editor rose in her mind from the state of neuter to something of a man. Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete|George Meredith Was it a sort of neuter gender, a sexless being that was there in course of development? Impressions of a War Correspondent|George Lynch
British Dictionary definitions for neuter
adjectivegrammar - denoting or belonging to a gender of nouns which for the most part have inanimate referents or do not specify the sex of their referents
- (as noun)German ``Mädchen'' ( meaning ``girl'' ) is a neuter
(of animals and plants) having nonfunctional, underdeveloped, or absent reproductive organs sexless or giving no indication of sexa neuter sort of name nouna sexually underdeveloped female insect, such as a worker bee a castrated animal, esp a domestic animal a flower in which the stamens and pistil are absent or nonfunctional verb(tr) to castrate or spay (an animal) Word Origin for neuterC14: from Latin, from ne not + uter either (of two) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to neutersterilize, spay, mutilate, castrate, doctor, fix, unsex, geld, dress, alter, change, desexualize Medical definitions for neuter
adj.Having undeveloped or imperfectly developed sexual organs. Sexually undeveloped. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |