Definition of "neuter" in Anglais

adjective

1. (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

2. (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.

   • a neuter noun
   • the neuter definite article
   • a neuter termination
   • the neuter gender

3. (grammar) Intransitive.

   • a neuter verb

4. (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

5. (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.

6. (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.

noun

1. (biology) 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; especially, 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.

2. (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.

3. The act of neutering (typically an animal)

4. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

5. (grammar) The neuter gender.

6. (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

7. (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

   • Make one do, or act (to), fare fare, fare agire, with an accusative when the verb is a neuter, and with a dative when otherwise.
   • Compound verbs other than those already spoken of whereby neuters are made active, are very rare, as I have already hinted under the head of nouns.

verb

1. (transitive) To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

2. (transitive) To rid of sexuality.

3. (transitive) To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.

   • Congress neutered the bill by adding an exception for big corporations.

4. (transitive) To make grammatically neuter.