adjective
neuter
Having no male or female sexual characteristics.
The artist gives the statue a smooth, neuter body.
Etymology
The Latin word means neither of two. Applied to sex, it describes something assigned to neither the male nor the female category.
More examples
- The creatures in the story are neuter, with no sexual organs.
- The organism remains neuter until its sexual characteristics develop.
- The clay figure is neuter rather than distinctly male or female.
Forms
neuter
Similar words
- sexless
- More commonly describes something lacking male or female sexual characteristics.
- asexual
- In biology, often describes reproduction without the joining of sex cells.