sexless
- adjective
- /ˈsɛksləs/
- Specialized
- The patient was born with sexless anatomy, which requires specialized medical attention.
Examples
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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
Not able to have babies or other young
Unable to have babies or make seeds
Unable to have children or young
Having no working male or female sex organs
Having no testes or ovaries
Unable to have babies because of surgery
Unable to have babies or make seeds
How Sexually Developed
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.