'Neuter' definitions:
Definition of 'neuter'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun" [ant: feminine, masculine]
adjective
Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs [syn: neuter, sexless]
noun
A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
verb
Definition of 'Neuter'
From: GCIDE
- Neuter \Neu"ter\, a. [L., fr. ne not + uter whether; akin to E. whether. See No, and Whether, and cf. Neither.]
- 1. Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands neuter. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Gram.) (a) 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; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender. (b) Intransitive; as, a neuter verb. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Biol.) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Neuter'
From: GCIDE
- Neuter \Neu"ter\, n.
- 1. A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral. [1913 Webster]
- The world's no neuter; it will wound or save. --Young. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Gram.) (a) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words. (b) An intransitive verb. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Biol.) 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; esp., 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'neuter'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'neuter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Laodicean,
- 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