sexless
/ˈsɛksləs
/adjective
1Lacking in sexual desire, activity, or attractiveness: I’ve no patience with pious, sexless females...
- Helena's desire to lose her virginity belies the image of the little Elizabethan sexless virgin who doesn't really have any sexual desire.
- Veronica has no regard for puritanical ideologies or passively sexless females in her quest for self-realization through sexual freedom.
- Instead, religious missionaries continue to bring boring, sexless dogma to the rest of the world, while soda pop executives continue to bring crisp, refreshing deliciousness.
2Neither male nor female: a stylized and sexless falsetto...
- This was western art's first sexless nude, a body in motion, neither female nor male, rendered as a physicist or a stop-action photographer might see it, not as a painter was expected to.
- She wasn't female anymore, just a sexless thief.
- Nomi's look suggested dangerous androgyny, a sexless scariness that drew directly from both glitzy drag and gloomy Gothic ideals.
Synonyms
asexual, neuter, unsexed, epicene
technical parthenogenetic
Derivatives
sexlessly
- She does this first to sexlessly amuse herself out of her relationship drudgery and second because of her theory that women respond to women, not men.
- It was so sexlessly British it made you want to emigrate.
- The models were more outdoorsy and sensible, the clothing worn almost sexlessly.
sexlessness
- Despite the almost pathological sexlessness of Bollywood films (nobody kisses in Devdas), there's still a lot of passion here, mostly in the alluring dance numbers.
- People there, we believe (and have been repeatedly told) are smarter, righter, richer (their relative sexlessness is a strange aspect of their glamour).
- It's beyond cliche now to bemoan the cold, sexlessness of the German language: the precise mathematical logic of the conjunctive, built words conspires straining out all rhythm or melody.