Neuter Common

Neuter has 7 different meanings across 3 categories:

Definitions

Noun

a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

neuter

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; especially, 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.

Verb

remove the ovaries of

"Is your cat spayed?"

alter neuter spay castrate

To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

Adjective

of grammatical gender

"`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"

neuter

having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

neuter sexless

Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

Origin

The word "neuter" comes from the Latin neuter, which is formed by combining "not" with "which of the two." Its original meaning was "neither one nor the other," reflecting its use to describe things that are not male or female.

Rhyming Words

ter ater ster tter iter uter citer oater later vater gater after oster enter beter tater miter voter deter opter

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