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NEUTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does neuter mean?
• NEUTER (noun)
The noun NEUTER has 1 sense:
1. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
Familiarity information: NEUTER used as a noun is very rare.
• NEUTER (adjective)
The adjective NEUTER has 2 senses:
2. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
Familiarity information: NEUTER used as an adjective is rare.
• NEUTER (verb)
The verb NEUTER has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: NEUTER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("neuter" is a kind 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)
Derivation:
neuter (remove the ovaries of)
neuter (of grammatical gender)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of grammatical gender
Context example:
'it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun
Antonym:
feminine; masculine (of grammatical gender)
Derivation:
neuter (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
Synonyms:
neuter; sexless
Similar:
asexual; nonsexual (not having or involving sex)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: neutered
Past participle: neutered
-ing form: neutering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the ovaries of
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
Context example:
Is your cat spayed?
Hypernyms (to "neuter" is one way to...):
desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; sterilize; unsex (make infertile)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "neuter"):
defeminise; defeminize (remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
neuter (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine))
Context examples
EXAMPLE(S): If the animal been spayed or neutered, reproductiveOrgansPresentIndicator = "N".
(Animal Reproductive Organs Present Indicator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
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