neuter

/ˈnudər/

/ˈnutə/

Other forms: neuters; neutered; neutering

Definitions of neuter

1. adjective

   having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
   synonyms: sexless

   asexual, nonsexual

   not having or involving sex
2. adjective

   of grammatical gender
   “`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun”

   antonyms:

   masculine

   of grammatical gender

   feminine

   of grammatical gender

   masculine

   associated with men and not with women

   feminine

   associated with women and not with men
3. noun

   a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
   type of:

   gender, grammatical gender

   a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
4. verb

   remove the ovaries of
   synonyms: alter, castrate, spay

   types:

   defeminise, defeminize

   remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)

   type of:

   desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex

   make infertile