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sexless

[ seks-lis ]

/ ˈsɛks lɪs /

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adjective

having or seeming to have no sex; neuter.

having or seeming to have no sexual desires.

having no sex appeal; sexually uninteresting.

Origin of sexless

First recorded in 1590–1600; sex + -less

OTHER WORDS FROM sexless

sex·less·ly, adverb sex·less·ness, noun

Words nearby sexless

sexfoil, sexi-, sexism, sexist, sexivalent, sexless, sexology, sexpartite, sexpert, sexploitation, sexpot

Example sentences from the Web for sexless

We think of Christianity as sexless, this [Gospel] says that sex is sacred.

Is ‘The Lost Gospel’ Book a Fraud? |Nico Hines |November 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
We have created a romanticized image that mothers are supposed to be sexless and epitomize the perfect homemaker.

Stormy Daniels on Being a Porn-Star Mom |Kristin Battista-Frazee |August 23, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
In it, Meryl Streep, who is 63, plays a married-for-30-years woman who has been sexless for a half decade.

Meryl Streep, ‘Hope Springs,’ and Senior Sex: Why Seniors Are Getting It On |Karen Springen |August 10, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Sexless and reassuring they may be, incapable of sin they may be, but they have screwed us royally all the same.

Berlusconi Exits, and an Era of Sexist Buffoonery Is Over |Lawrence Osborne |November 17, 2011 |DAILY BEAST

We in India can never see Gandhi as the sexless, Yoda-like figure that  many in the West still do.

Aravind Adiga on Gandhi's Forgotten Legacy of Manliness |Aravind Adiga |April 13, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Nicknames that in the sexless jargon of her day and of her kind might have been names of women and might be names of men.

This Freedom |A. S. M. Hutchinson
With Wantele the relations of Mabel Digby had always been of a singularly close and sexless nature.

Jane Oglander |Marie Belloc Lowndes
Was it a sort of neuter gender, a sexless being that was there in course of development?

Impressions of a War Correspondent |George Lynch
We know that active inanimate things are sexless, are neuter; we feel no necessity to speak of them as male or female.

Modern Mythology |Andrew Lang
HE: I thought you'd be sort of—sort of—sexless, you know, swim and play golf.

This Side of Paradise |F. Scott Fitzgerald

British Dictionary definitions for sexless

sexless

/ (ˈsɛkslɪs) /

adjective

having or showing no sexual differentiation

having no sexual desires

sexually unattractive

Derived forms of sexless

sexlessly, adverb sexlessness, noun