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:

1. of grammatical gender

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:

1. remove the ovaries of

  Familiarity information: NEUTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUTER (noun)

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)

• NEUTER (adjective)

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)

• NEUTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they neuter    ... he / she / it neuters   
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:

alter; castrate; neuter; spay

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)