sexless
Americanadjective
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having or seeming to have no sex; neuter.
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having or seeming to have no sexual desires.
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having no sex appeal; sexually uninteresting.
adjective
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having or showing no sexual differentiation
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having no sexual desires
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sexually unattractive
Other Word Forms
- sexlessly adverb
- sexlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of sexless
Example Sentences
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Sick of disabled characters being depicted either as sexless or fetishised, she wrote BBC comedy drama How This Blind Girl.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2023
After a pivot away from Smokey in the 2000s, the Ad Council released a sexless 2019 animoji campaign for the bear’s 75th birthday, making him the longest-running public service announcement in our nation’s history.
From Slate • Dec. 14, 2020
In other words, like many stars, it's easy to project all kinds of fantasy scenarios on Rudd, all of them childishly innocent and sexless and, if we're lucky, include him dancing awkwardly.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2019
Cruise plays an essentially sexless, authority-defying, athletic loner who overcomes his initial egotism or fecklessness to vanquish the forces of evil.
From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2016
Perhaps the best- known subject is a man or boy gingerly holding a “were-jaguar”: a limp, fat, sexless baby with a flattened nose and a snarling jaguar mouth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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