sexless

/'sekslis/

Thân thiện

A sexless cactus sits on a sunny windowsill.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Lacking sexual characteristics or attraction: Describes a person, entity, or portrayal that is devoid of sexual appeal, qualities, or interest.
   • Without sexual desire: Describes a person who experiences little or no sexual interest or libido.
   • Lacking functional sex organs: Describes an organism or entity that does not possess or has nonfunctional reproductive organs.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The character was portrayed as a sexless bureaucrat, focused only on work.
  • After the illness, she felt completely sexless and had no interest in intimacy.
  • Many worker ants in a colony are sexless and cannot reproduce.

Advanced Usage

• In a figurative or critical sense: Used to describe something as bland, sterile, or devoid of vitality or passion.
  • The critic panned the film's sexless and uninspired romance plot.
• In biology: Describes asexual reproduction or organisms that do not have distinct sexes.
  • The fungus reproduces through sexless spores.

Variants and Related Words

• Sexlessly (adverb): In a sexless manner.
  • The figures in the painting were depicted sexlessly.
• Sexlessness (noun): The state or quality of being sexless.
  • The sexlessness of the architectural design was intentional.

Synonyms

• Asexual: Without sexual feelings or associations; (in biology) reproducing without the fusion of gametes.
• Nonsexual: Not involving or related to sex.
• Desexed: Having had sexual characteristics removed or neutralized.

Antonyms

• Sexual: Relating to sex, characterized by sex, or possessing sexual desire.
• Voluptuous: Suggesting or expressing sensual pleasure.
• Lustful: Having or showing strong feelings of sexual desire.

Related Phrases and Idioms

(Note: "Sexless" itself is not typically used in phrasal verbs or common idioms. The related phrases are descriptive.) - Sexless marriage: A marriage in which little or no sexual activity occurs. - They sought counseling for their sexless marriage.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. sexually unattractive
2. having no sexual desire
3. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

Từ đồng nghĩa

• neuter