Unsexual

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not sexual. not-comparable

    "Certain unrandy Pacific salmon are said never to return back up their birth rivers, but instead prefer to live out their cautious careers in unsexual but less demanding bachelorhood or spinsterhood."

Example

More examples

"We had been friends, quite good friends; but never could I get beyond the same comradeship which I might have established with one of my fellow-reporters upon the Gazette–perfectly frank, perfectly kindly, and perfectly unsexual."

Etymology

From un- + sexual.

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