sexless
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sex + -less. Compare sexful.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]sexless (not comparable)
- Without sexual activity.
- They have a sexless marriage.
- 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- They’re sexually active and eager throughout the first nine seasons, so this isn’t like the show breathing life into a sexless sitcom couple from the 1950s.
- Without physical or behavioral sexual distinction.
- Provoking or showing no sexual desire.
- A small child is sexless.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
- The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.
- Without sex appeal. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
[edit]- sex-free, sexfree
- (without intimacy): loveless
- (without sexual activity since birth): virgin, virginal
- (without sexual activity by choice): celibate, chaste; asexual
Translations
[edit]not having sexual characteristics
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not having sexual relations