Word Meanings - UNSEXUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.

Related words: (words related to UNSEXUAL)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• PROPER
  Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge. In proper, individually; privately. Jer. Taylor. -- Proper flower or corolla , one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. --
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• PROPERTIED
  Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.
• PROPERISPOME
  Properispomenon.
• SEXUALLY
  In a sexual manner or relation.
• PROPERISPOMENON
  A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.
• SEXUALITY
  The quality or state of being distinguished by sex. Lindley.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• PROPERATION
  The act of hastening; haste. T. Adams.
• PECULIARITY
  1. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift. 2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity. The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner. Macaulay. 3. Exclusive
• SEXUALIST
  One who classifies plants by the sexual method of Linnæus.
• SEXUALIZE
  To attribute sex to.
• SEXUAL
  Of or pertaining to sex, or the sexes; distinguishing sex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual
• ASEXUALIZATION
  The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• ASEXUALLY
  In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• ASEXUAL
  Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
• NONSEXUAL
  Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.
• IMPROPERIA
  A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove.