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[ seks-lis ] / ˈsɛks lɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR sexless ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivehaving or seeming to have no sex; neuter. having or seeming to have no sexual desires. having no sex appeal; sexually uninteresting. Origin of sexlessFirst recorded in 1590–1600; sex + -less OTHER WORDS FROM sexlesssex·less·ly, adverbsex·less·ness, nounWords nearby sexlesssex-influenced inheritance, sexism, sexist, sexivalent, sex kitten, sexless, sex-limited, sex-limited inheritance, sex-linkage, sex-linked, sex-linked character Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sexlessWe think of Christianity as sexless, this [Gospel] says that sex is sacred. Is ‘The Lost Gospel’ Book a Fraud?|Nico Hines|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST We have created a romanticized image that mothers are supposed to be sexless and epitomize the perfect homemaker. Stormy Daniels on Being a Porn-Star Mom|Kristin Battista-Frazee|August 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST In it, Meryl Streep, who is 63, plays a married-for-30-years woman who has been sexless for a half decade. Meryl Streep, ‘Hope Springs,’ and Senior Sex: Why Seniors Are Getting It On|Karen Springen|August 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST Sexless and reassuring they may be, incapable of sin they may be, but they have screwed us royally all the same. Berlusconi Exits, and an Era of Sexist Buffoonery Is Over|Lawrence Osborne|November 17, 2011|DAILY BEAST
We in India can never see Gandhi as the sexless, Yoda-like figure that
many in the West still do. Aravind Adiga on Gandhi's Forgotten Legacy of Manliness|Aravind Adiga|April 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST Nicknames that in the sexless jargon of her day and of her kind might have been names of women and might be names of men. This Freedom|A. S. M. Hutchinson With Wantele the relations of Mabel Digby had always been of a singularly close and sexless nature. Jane Oglander|Marie Belloc Lowndes Was it a sort of neuter gender, a sexless being that was there in course of development? Impressions of a War Correspondent|George Lynch We know that active inanimate things are sexless, are neuter; we feel no necessity to speak of them as male or female. Modern Mythology|Andrew Lang HE: I thought you'd be sort of—sort of—sexless, you know, swim and play golf. This Side of Paradise|F. Scott Fitzgerald
British Dictionary definitions for sexless
adjectivehaving or showing no sexual differentiation having no sexual desires sexually unattractive Derived forms of sexlesssexlessly, adverbsexlessness, nounCollins 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 sexlesscastrated, neuter, epicene, agamous, unisex |