Definitions for neuter

neuter neu·ter

Spelling: [noo-ter, nyoo-]
IPA: /ˈnu tər, ˈnyu-/

Neuter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in neuter (eenrtu).

Definitions for neuter

noun

  1. Grammar. the neuter gender. a noun of that gender. another element marking that gender. an intransitive verb.
  2. an animal made sterile by castration or spaying.
  3. Zoology. a neuter insect.
  4. a person or thing that is neutral.

adjective

  1. Grammar. noting or pertaining to a gender that refers to things classed as neither masculine nor feminine. (of a verb) intransitive.
  2. Biology. having no organs of reproduction; without sex; asexual.
  3. Zoology. having imperfectly developed sexual organs, as the worker bees and ants.
  4. Botany. having neither stamens nor pistils; asexual.
  5. neutral; siding with no one.

verb (used with object)

  1. Veterinary Science. to spay or castrate (a dog, cat, etc.).

Origin of neuter

1350-1400; Latin neuter neither (of two), equivalent to ne not + uter either (of two); replacing Middle English neutre Middle French Latin, as above

Examples for neuter

It is not sexless, but bi-sexual; not neuter but masculine-feminine.

Here do refers to the state, and is essentially passive or neuter.

At this point they cease altogether, and the central point is neuter.

Take that away, or neuter the violence too much, and enrollment drops.

It seeks to neuter the criticism of any lurking Paltrow naysayers wishing to transfer their negativity to Lively.

Pro: “My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working & nothing after all.”

It's just an attempt to neuter any Tea Party support for conservative candidates who happen to have an R by their names.

For in this case it is lawfull for no man to be a / neuter / as they call it.

The neuter verbs to taste and to smell are often followed by of.

She says the Humane Society would like to enforce spay and neuter laws to the point where there would be no purebred dogs left.

Word Value for neuter
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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