Neuter definition

no͝otər, nyo͝o-
neutered neuters
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Castrated or spayed. Used of animals.
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A castrated or spayed animal.
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Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs.
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The neuter gender.
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Neuter means to make an animal neutral or incapable of reproduction.

An example of neuter is to spay a dog.

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Neuter is defined as a castrated animal or a plant or animal that is sexually undeveloped.

An example of a neuter is a spayed cat.

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Androgynous or asexual.
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(archaic) Taking no side in a dispute; neutral.
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Neither masculine nor feminine in gender.
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Having undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs.

The neuter caste in social insects.

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Having pistils and stamens that are nonfunctional or absent.
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(archaic) One that is neutral in a dispute.
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A neuter word.
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A neuter noun.
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To render ineffective or powerless.

A scandal that neutered the politician.

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Having no sexual organ; asexual.
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Having undeveloped or imperfect sexual organs in the adult, as the worker bee.
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Designating, of, or belonging to a third gender, existing in many highly inflected languages, consisting of words that have neither masculine nor feminine grammatical gender.
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Neither active nor passive; intransitive.
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(archaic) A neutral person or group.
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(biol.) A plant or animal lacking, or having undeveloped, sexual organs.
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The neuter gender.
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A word or form in this gender.
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An intransitive verb.
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To castrate or spay (an animal)
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Androgynous or asexual.
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Having undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs.

The neuter caste in social insects.

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Having pistils and stamens that are nonfunctional or absent.
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(archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
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(grammar) 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.

A neuter noun; the neuter definite article; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

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(grammar) Intransitive.

A neuter verb.

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(biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
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(grammar) The neuter gender.
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(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
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(biology) 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; especially, 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.
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A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
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(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
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To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
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An androgynous or asexual person.
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The definition of neuter is neutral, asexual or of a third gender.

An example of a neuter person is someone not interested in any sexual relationship.

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A castrated animal.
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Castrated or spayed. Used of animals.
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To castrate or spay.
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An insect that has undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs, such as a worker bee.
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To castrate or spay.
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(archaic, punctuation & diacritics, modals / auxiliaries, interjections, articles (grammatical), linguistics, biology & biochemistry, entomology, domestic breeds) Taking neither side; neutral.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
neuter
Plural:
neuters

Origin of neuter

  • Middle English neutre from Old French from Latin neuter neither, neuter ne- not ne in Indo-European roots uter either kwo- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin, from ne (“not") + uter (“whether"); compare English whether and neither.

    From Wiktionary

Neuter Sentence Examples

  • The New English Dictionary points out that whereas the old Teutonic type of the word is neuter, corresponding to the Latin numen, in the Christian applications it becomes masculine, and that even where the earlier neuter form is still kept, as in Gothic and Old Norwegian, the construction is masculine.

  • We may observe, however, that while the latter term is used to denote the virtuous man, and (in the neuter) equivalent to End generally, the former is rather chosen to express the quality of virtuous acts which in any particular case is the end of the virtuous agent.

  • Like the former, he believes in a supreme personal God, possessing all gracious qualities (saguna), not in the quality-less (nirguna) neuter impersonal Brahman of Sankaracharya; this Lord Himself once took the human form, and became incarnate, for the blessing of mankind, as Rama.

  • If you can't afford to neuter a kitten then don't have one.

  • Associated with these males are neuter zooids, which usually possess no functional repro ductive organs, but have in I -...

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