Definitions for neuters

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neuters neu·ter

Spelling: [noo-ter, nyoo-]

IPA: /ˈnu tər, ˈnyu-/

Neuters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in neuters (eenrstu).

Definitions for neuters

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 neuters

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 neuters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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