HyperDic English NEUT ... neuter

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English 4 senses of the word *neuter*:
ADJECTIVE	all	neuter	of grammatical gender
ADJECTIVE	all	neuter, sexless	having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
NOUN	communication	neuter	a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
VERB	body	neuter, alter, spay, castrate	remove the ovaries of

neuter pronunciation
Sounds	nuw'ter
Rhymes	abductor ... zoster: 649 rhymes with ter...

Englishneuter: 4 senses adjective 1
Meaning	Of grammatical gender.
Example	"'it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
Opposite	feminine	Of grammatical gender
Opposite	masculine	Of grammatical gender
Spanish	neutro
Nouns	neuter	a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

Englishneuter: 4 senses adjective 2
Meaning	Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs.
Synonym	sexless
Broader	asexual, nonsexual	not having or involving sex
Spanish	asexuado, asexual, neutro
Catalan	asexual

Englishneuter: 4 senses noun 1, communication
Meaning	A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine).
Broader	gender, grammatical gender	A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives
Spanish	neutro
Catalan	neutre
Adjectives	neuter	of grammatical gender
Verbs	neuter	remove the ovaries of

Englishneuter: 4 senses verb 1, body
Meaning	Remove the ovaries of.
Pattern	Somebody ----s somebody
Synonyms	alter, spay, castrate
Narrower	defeminize, defeminise	Remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)
Broader	sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix	make infertile
Spanish	castrar, esterilizar
Nouns	neuter	a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
Nouns	neutering	the sterilization of an animal

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