(a.) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
(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.
(a.) Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.
(a.) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
(n.) A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
(n.) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
(n.) An intransitive verb.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monti introduced balanced budgets into the Italian constitution, effectively neutering its provisions for social need's precedence over market imperatives.
(2) And, hey, until Friday morning, most surveillance reform advocates were worried about the Senate ramming through the currently neutered version of the USA Freedom Act as its fig leaf of reform, before going back to business as usual and proposing bills that will give the NSA more power – not less.
(3) Treatment varies with the type of aggressive behavior but may include neutering, desensitization and counter-conditioning techniques, punishment, drug therapy, and management changes.
(4) I know it is regarded as an act of faith by some that all print journalists should be baying for BBC blood, wanting it neutered or drastically reduced.
(5) But also, how cool that you are all talking about that.’” The film has opened to mainly negative reviews, with the Guardian’s Henry Barnes feeling that the compromises Emmerich has made “ leave Stonewall feeling neutered ” while Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson called it “ alarmingly clunky ”.
(6) The White House sent draft legislative wording to the House and Senate leaders on Saturday evening, which authorised actions designed only to neuter the threat of chemical weapons or to prevent their proliferation.
(7) Direct Action climate scheme has been 'neutered', says Nick Xenophon Read more But almost all analysis suggests it would be impossible for Direct Action to meet the target the government has set for 2030 – a fall of between 26% and 28% compared with 2005 levels.
(8) An 8-year-old neutered male cat with a history of intermittent collapse and dyspnea was evaluated.
(9) This would pave the way for a neutered parliament in which the opposition could never take control.
(10) For dogs, younger dogs and male dogs were less likely to have been neutered than older dogs and female dogs.
(11) And this is the most pessimistic of all his ideas: that three decades of neoliberalism have got into people's consciousness and infected the way young people respond to poverty just as they have neutered the way politicians express themselves.
(12) But it's difficult to see how anything could neuter the weight of evidence relating to the joint UK-Libyan rendition operations of 2004: there's just so much of it.
(13) The effects of age, sex, and neutering on the prevalence of feline intestinal parasitism were evaluated by fecal examination of 1,294 cats admitted to the University of Missouri Veterinary Teaching Hospital for the 3-year period, 1974 to 1976.
(14) Opposition parties said the new rules raised serious questions about police accountability because they leave the PIRC neutered when its authority to compel officers to give interviews could be needed most.
(15) Sera from 25 males (18 intact, 7 neutered) and 14 females (7 intact, 7 spayed) were assayed.
(16) Castration or ovariectomy of Cu-deficient rats had little effect on CH or the other parameters associated with Cu deficiency, and supplementation of the neutered animals with estrogen or testosterone was similarly without effect.
(17) For both dogs and cats, infection rates were generally higher in males than in females and in those that were sexually intact, compared with those that were neutered.
(18) • The neutering of a national not-for-profit pension scheme launching in October that was supposed to benefit millions of low-paid and temporary workers.
(19) It is worth noting, for example, that around 60% of the electorate voted for parties that explicitly promised to abolish or neuter Duncan Smith’s unpopular bedroom tax, and the squeezed middle are yet to feel the impact of potential further cuts to tax credits and child benefit.
(20) In situations where human preference is most likely to occur, neutering risk is also high.
Sexless
Definition:
(a.) Having no sex.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can go to a Wes Anderson film and appreciate it, but it is completely sexless."
(2) Hence Two Weeks, a song about wooing a man away from a sexless relationship, features the line "I can fuck you better than her".
(3) While hit shows such as Queer as Folk (anodyne and sexless in its US version), Will and Grace and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy have been important steps in acquainting American viewers with homo reality, The L Word is a huge leap forward, dealing with lesbian life as it is lived, albeit with a Hollywood gloss.
(4) And then, of course, there’s the “straight-friendly” mainstream takes, in which the gay man is often depicted as almost entirely sexless – see Will & Grace, or the gay couple in Modern Family.
(5) Vapid and sexless, pop was little more than a Smash Hits remake of American Bandstand three decades earlier.
(6) As a group, and despite Geri's jawdropping cleavage, they were strangely sexless.
(7) Characteristics of spatial orientation in T-maze were studied in 1768 Planaria of following types: Dugesia tigrina (sexless and sexual race), Dugesia lugubris, Ijmia tenuis, Bdellacephala punctata.
(8) Nick shows up in imprisoned women's cells, a cacophony of cheekbones, sharp suits and cheeky Manc-ness to remind them how bloody long four sexless years locked up with Helga the arsonist in Holloway will really feel.
(9) Spare us the horror of these sexless Christmas jumpers | Peter Bradshaw Read more Many conservatives might think the only problem in that image from Ferguson is that the banner said “season’s greetings” and not “Merry Christmas” And so they let Jesus be co-opted by the same violent, racist and alienating capitalism which has co-opted our entire world.
(10) In a "biography" called The Life of Charlotte Brontë , published just two years after the author's death, Gaskell stripped Charlotte of her genius and transformed her into a sexless, death-stalked saint.
(11) The Finnish and Australian studies were conducted this century, but most of the time, where there is a 21st century reference, on closer inspection it turns out to be about some other element of sex, only tangentially related to the male sex deficit (pricing in prostitution; the thoughts of a blogger who likes to shag a lot, whose inclusion marks a new weird point in the art of indexing; some figures on sexless marriages, which could just as easily demonstrate both parties would like to have sex, just not with each other).
(12) When women have appeared in them, they have been either sexless automatons or rebels who've defied the sex rules of the regime.
(13) Here's a suggestion: a sexless character that isn't a hopeless, horny, prepubescent boy or senile great, great grandmother but someone who just happens to have not had sex in a while.
(14) It became the iconic portrait of the age – a sexless PR stunt for a product about a sex scandal that boosted chair sales.
(15) When sexless characters do make it on to the screen, they almost always fall into two distinct camps.
(16) While he claimed to have slept with thousands of men and perhaps women – when asked whether his first sexual encounter had been homosexual or heterosexual he replied he had been "too polite to ask" – Vidal always maintained that his 53-year-long relationship with Howard Auster was sexless.
(17) Today, against poor old Switzerland , they should hopefully provide an antidote for the sexless football that has permeated this tournament.
(18) It's about self-delusion, responsibility, the fear that can come with middle age, and a particularly British form of exhibitionism – a sexless, paunchy thing founded on boredom and boyish mischief.
(19) Then she can join the other exes as they flatter him around the high seas – a sort of sexless harem.
(20) Aged individuals need sexually and medically what people in general want and need, and the idea of an acceptable decline into a sexless state is insulting.