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sexless

sexless

1 7.0
Having no or undeveloped body parts used to make babies
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɛksləs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sin órganos sexuales
  • The patient was born with sexless anatomy, which requires specialized medical attention.

Examples

  • Like her little brother, she is sexless, even if her section is used to give counsel to mothers who have to face their children's problems at puberty.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Serendipity stands and unbuttons her jeans, dropping them slightly, revealing yet another smooth, sexless crotch, quite like Metatron's.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • But they band together for mutual survival and form a sexless union of sorts.

    Blog text (34)
  • Likewise, the electric clothes render the body hidden and sexless.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The half-grown, fragile thing is sexless.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Humans were originally sexless.

    Academic text (2007)
  • It means sexless drone and eunuch.

    Blog text (6)
  • When I ask him why artists paint angels with feminine faces but a masculine chest, he tells me angels are sexless.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Turtles and alligators, for instance, lay sexless eggs, which become either male or female depending on the temperature at which they incubate.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Many species of plants can produce sexless flowers, which do not develop into fruits.

Synonyms

infertile
vssexless
19 5.2

Not able to have babies or other young

refers to absent or undeveloped sexual organs rather than only fertility
sterile
vssexless
19 5.3

Unable to have babies or make seeds

describes organ absence or poor development causing that inability
barren
vssexless
  • Archaic
12 6.8

Unable to have children or young

uses organ absence or poor development as the defining idea
neuter
vssexless
  • Specialized
7.5

Having no working male or female sex organs

is the broader term noting absent or poorly developed sexual organs
agonadal
vssexless
  • Specialized
9.9

Having no testes or ovaries

includes any absence or poor development of sexual organs beyond just gonads
unsexed
vssexless
  • Specialized
9.6

Unable to have babies because of surgery

focuses on physical absence or poor development of sexual organs
unfertile
vssexless
  • Archaic
6.4

Unable to have babies or make seeds

highlights organ absence or poor development as the root cause

How Sexually Developed

well-endowed
  • Offensive
3 7.4
normal
1.0
sexless
  • Specialized
1 7.0

Surface Forms

sexless positive

Morphology

sexless = sex (transparent) = sex + less

Denotes 'without sex' in a biological sense (no functioning sex organs); the morphological composition is regular and inferable.

Etymology

Sexless combines sex meaning 'sex organs or the male and female parts' and -less meaning 'without', similar to childless. So sexless can describe a person or plant that has 'no working sex organs'.