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sexless

[seks-lis]

adjective

  1. having or seeming to have no sex; neuter.

  2. having or seeming to have no sexual desires.

  3. having no sex appeal; sexually uninteresting.



sexless

/ ˈsɛkslɪs /

adjective

  1. having or showing no sexual differentiation

  2. having no sexual desires

  3. sexually unattractive

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Other Word Forms

  • sexlessly adverb
  • sexlessness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sexless1

First recorded in 1590–1600; sex + -less
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Example Sentences

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But the film quickly sheds any tendency toward black humor or sensuality in favor of its sexless pixie heroine.

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The parody ad imagines couture for 30-something women as roomy, boxy, drab and sexless.

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"Doctor Who was kind of sexless... he's with a beautiful woman all the time and never looks at her sexually. And that's an interesting little chime with a young, gay boy," he said.

From BBC

We glean that this was a match of undesirables: the timid, sexless guy no girl wanted and the girl too outspoken to be paired.

Bertie’s romantic relations are entirely sexless, 20th-century echoes of courtly love, though throughout the oeuvre he gets engaged to at least six women by my count.

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