Definition of neuter Neuter

/nuˈtɚ/ - [nuter] - neu•ter

We found 27 definitions of neuter from 6 different sources.

What does neuter mean?

Noun Plural: neuters
neuter - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
		grammatical gender, 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
Adjective neuter, neuterer, neuterest
neuter - of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
		masculine associated with men and not with women
neuter - having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
		sexless
		asexual, nonsexual not having or involving sex; "an asexual spore"; "asexual reproduction"

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neuter (Noun)
The neuter gender.
neuter (Noun)
A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
neuter (Noun)
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.
neuter (Noun)
A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
neuter (Noun)
An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
neuter (Verb)
To remove sex organ s from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
neuter (Verb)
To rid of sexuality.
neuter (Adjective)
Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
neuter (Adjective)
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.
neuter (Adjective)
Intransitive.
neuter (Adjective)
Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.

neuter (a.)
Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
neuter (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.
neuter (a.)
Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.
neuter (a.)
Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
neuter (n.)
A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
neuter (n.)
A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
neuter (n.)
An intransitive verb.
neuter (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.

neuter
The neutrally determined gender of a kind of word as used by some languages.
neuter
A noun of the neuter gender.
neuter
Belonging to the neuter grammatical gender.

neuter
nū′tėr, adj. neither: taking no part with either side: (gram.) neither masculine nor feminine: neither active nor passive: (bot.) without stamens or pistils: (zool.) without sex.—n. one taking no part in a contest: (bot.) a plant having neither stamens nor pistils: (zool.) a sexless animal, esp. the working bee. [L., 'neither'—ne, not, uter, either.]

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neuter in sign language