neuter

neuter is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
2. 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; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.
3. adjective. Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.
4. adjective. Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
5. noun. A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
6. noun. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
7. noun. An intransitive verb.
8. 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; 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.
9. noun. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
10. verb. remove the ovaries of

    "Is your cat spayed?"

    Synonyms: alter, castrate, spay

11. adjective. of grammatical gender

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

12. adjective. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

    Synonyms: sexless

Synonyms

alter, castrate, spay, sexless

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in neuter:

retune, runtee, tenure, tureen

Common word forms

neuters, neutered, neuterly, neutering, neuterness

Words from these letters

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