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Neuter   /nˈutər/   Listen
noun
Neuter  n.  
1.
A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral. "The world's no neuter; it will wound or save."
2.
(Gram.)
(a)
A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
(b)
An intransitive verb.
3.
(Biol.) 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.


verb
neuter  v. t.  To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.


adjective
Neuter  adj.  
1.
Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral. (Archaic) "In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands neuter."
2.
(Gram.)
(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.
(b)
Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.
3.
(Biol.) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.





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"Neuter" Quotes from Famous Books



... "good," "the rich," (not that I quite understand this part of "Mr. HICKSON's" argument): and, lastly, I assert that I believe that Neues, in the phrase "Was giebt's Neues?" is not the genitive, but the nominative neuter, so that the phrase is to be literally translated "What ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 30. Saturday, May 25, 1850 • Various
... is a neuter noun not personified, a writer should prefer of which to whose, unless euphony ...
— Practical Exercises in English • Huber Gray Buehler
... inform her of the plot against us; do not let her be ignorant that Madame will return to her system of persecutions against her, and that she has set those to work who would have found it far safer to remain neuter." ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... verreissen to rend away, zerreissen to rend to pieces, entreissen to rend off or out of a thing, in the active sense: or schmelzen to melt—ver, zer, ent, schmelzen—and in like manner through all the verbs neuter and active. If you consider only how much we should feel the loss of the prefix be, as in bedropt, besprinkle, besot, especially in our poetical language, and then think that this same mode of composition is carried through ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... now sensible of the judgment of God, and of the different rewards of infidelity and obedience?" "Alas!" replied Harmozan, "I feel them too deeply. In the days of our common ignorance, we fought with the weapons of the flesh, and my nation was superior. God was then neuter: since he has espoused your quarrel, you have subverted our kingdom and religion." Oppressed by this painful dialogue, the Persian complained of intolerable thirst, but discovered some apprehension lest he should be killed whilst he was drinking a cup of water. "Be of good courage," said the ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon


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