Neuter

English

Adjective

Neuter (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
2. (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

3. (grammar) Intransitive

   a neuter verb

4. (biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.

Noun

Neuter (plural Neuters)

1. (grammar) The neuter gender.
2. (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
3. (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.
4. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
5. (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

Verb

Neuter (third-person singular simple present Neuters, present participle Neutering, simple past and past participle Neutered)

1. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

Synonyms

• castrate, desex, doctor, fix, spay

Thesaurus

Laodicean, alter, animate, anythingarian, apathetic, asexual, capon, castrate, castrated, centrist, change, cold, common gender, contemplative, cool, cut, desex, desexualize, do-nothing, doctor, dormant, emasculate, emasculated, epicene, eunuchize, eunuchized, even, feminine, fence-sitter, fervorless, fifty-fifty, fix, frigid, frustrated, geld, gender, half-and-half, halfhearted, idle, immobile, impartial, impotent, inactive, inanimate, independent, indifferent, inert, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lukewarm, masculine, meditative, midway, moderate, motionless, mugwump, mutilate, neutral, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonpartisan, nothingarian, on the fence, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, perfunctory, procrastinating, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, sexless, spay, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, tepid, third force, third world, third-force, third-world, uncommitted, uninvolved, unsex, unsexed, unsexual, vegetable, vegetative, zealless

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈnjuːtə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈnuːtɚ/, /ˈnjuːtɚ/

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(r)