NEITHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neither mean? 

• NEITHER (adjective)
  The adjective NEITHER has 1 sense:

1. not either; not one or the other

  Familiarity information: NEITHER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEITHER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not either; not one or the other

Similar:

incomplete; uncomplete (not complete or total; not completed)

 Context examples 

She had neither beauty, genius, accomplishment, nor manner.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Neither are days to enter a new venture.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Neither of the bands hears the other, but up here I hear and see them both.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For some days afterwards, I am lost in rapturous reflections; but I neither see her in the street, nor when I call.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Jorindel could not move; he stood fixed as a stone, and could neither weep, nor speak, nor stir hand or foot.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Neither of them had forgotten Camp Laurence, or the fun we had there.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The participant is neither a true case or true control for the phenotype under consideration.

(Neither Case or Control Status, NCI Thesaurus)

But Buck was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Plasma cell myeloma that fits in neither stage I nor stage III.

(DS Stage II Plasma Cell Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)