Neutral

//ˈnjuː.tɹəl//

Synonyms for "neutral" (301 found)

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Closest matches (61)

Strong matches (90)

drab dull ecru emasculated equitable etiolated eunuchized even evenhanded exsanguinated exsanguine exsanguineous faded faint fair fallow featureless fence fence-sitter fervorless

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Adjective(11 words)

egal equal equitable evenhanded fair-minded fairhanded impartial imprejudicate indifferent indistinguishing innocuous

Adjective(4 words)

electroneutral impersonal indifferent inert

Related words (150)

laissez faire laissez-aller laissez-faire laodicean latitudinarian leaden liberal libertarian libertine livid lofty low lukewarm lurid lusterless mat mealy meditative medium middle-of-the-roader

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midway milk-and-water milky moderate moderationist moderatist motionless muddy mugwump mugwumpian mugwumpish mushy nebulous neuter neutralised noncommittal noncommitted nonpartisan nonspecific nothingarian objective olympian on the fence overdrive pale pale as death pale-faced pallid paralytic paralyzed passive pasty perfunctory procrastinating quiescent quietist quietistic rack remote removed reverse rugged individualist sallow self-contained self-dependent self-determined self-directing self-governed self-governing self-reliant self-subsistent self-sufficient self-supporting selfless sexless sickly sober sovereign stagnant stagnating standard transmission standpat static stationary stick shift swing vote synchromesh tallow-faced tasteless tepid third force third world third-force third-world toneless transmission unaffiliated unallied unbiased uncharacterized uncharged uncolored uncommitted uncommitted voter undazzled undifferentiated uninfluenced uninvolved unjaundiced unprejudiced unprepossessed unselfish unsexed unsexual unspecified unswayed vague vapid vegetable vegetative viewless wan washed out washed-out watery waxen weak whey-faced white wide wishy washy wishy-washy withdrawn zealless

Adjective(16 words)

neuter nonaligned nonpartial nonpartisan nonpersonal objective sexless unbiased unbigoted uncharged uninterested unmarked unpartial unpartisan unprejudiced unprepossessed

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

3 entries

actor doer worker

Antonyms

2 entries

negative positive

Synonyms

4 entries

achromatic impersonal indifferent innocuous

Related terms

2 entries

freewheel overdrive

coordinate

3 entries

earth ground hot

derived

63 entries

Neutral Confederacy Neutral Nation antineutral borrowed neutral carbon neutral carbon-neutral circumneutral electroneutral ethno-neutral gender neutral gender-neutral grain neutral spirit grape neutral spirit immunoneutral lost neutral metal neutral

Showing 16 of 63 words.

has context

4 entries

biology chemistry grammar physics

is a

1 entries

person

related to

25 entries

acidic alkaline beneficial charge colour conductor conflict electrical gear gray ground harmful hue negative neuter nonaligned

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similar

131 entries

argent ash-gray ash-grey ashy black-gray black-grey blackish blackish-gray blackish-grey blue-black blue-gray blue-grey blue-white bluish black bluish-gray bluish-grey

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Translations

237 translations across 65 languages.

Albanian

4 entries

asnjanës adj (neither beneficial nor harmful)
asnjanës adj (biology: having no sex)
asnjanës adj (physics: possessing no charge)
neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Arabic

2 entries

مُحَايِد adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
نُقْطَة الْعَطَالَة noun (position of gears)

Armenian

3 entries

չեզոք adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
չեզոք adj (biology: having no sex)
չեզոք adj (physics: possessing no charge)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

bitərəf adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Bashkir

1 entries

битараф adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Basque

1 entries

neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Belarusian

4 entries

бяспло́цевы adj (biology: having no sex)
бяспо́лы adj (biology: having no sex)
нейтра́льны adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
нэўтра́льны adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Bulgarian

4 entries

безпо́лов adj (biology: having no sex)
неутра́лен adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
неутра́лен adj (favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate)
неутрален adj (physics: possessing no charge)

Catalan

4 entries

neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutre adj (neither beneficial nor harmful)
neutre adj (biology: having no sex)
neutre adj (having no obvious colour)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

不帶電 /不带电 adj (physics: possessing no charge)
中性 adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)
中立 adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
無性 /无性 adj (biology: having no sex)

Cornish

2 entries

hebtu adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
heptu adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries

bitaraf adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Czech

4 entries

bezpohlavní adj (biology: having no sex)
nestranný adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutrální adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutrální adj (grammar: neither positive nor negative)

Danish

1 entries

neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Dutch

4 entries

geslachtloos adj (biology: having no sex)
neutraal adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutraal adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)
onzijdig adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)

Esperanto

1 entries

neŭtrala adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Estonian

2 entries

erapooletu adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutraalne adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Finnish

4 entries

liittoutumaton (nonaligned) adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutraali adj (grammar: neither positive nor negative)
neutraali adj (neither beneficial nor harmful)
neutraali adj (having no obvious colour)

French

4 entries

asexué adj (biology: having no sex)
neutre adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutre adj (neither beneficial nor harmful)
neutre adj (biology: having no sex)

Georgian

2 entries

მიუმხრობელი adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
ნეიტრალური adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

German

4 entries

geschlechtslos adj (biology: having no sex)
neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutral adj (neither beneficial nor harmful)
neutral adj (having no obvious colour)

Greek

4 entries

άφυλος adj (biology: having no sex)
ουδέτερος adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
ουδέτερος adj (neither beneficial nor harmful)
ουδέτερος adj (having no obvious colour)

Hebrew

1 entries

נטרלי adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Hindi

4 entries

उदासीन adj (physics: possessing no charge)
उदासीन adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)
तटस्थ adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
तटस्थ adj (favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate)

Hungarian

4 entries

el nem kötelezett adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
kívülálló adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
közömbös adj (neither beneficial nor harmful)
nem nélküli adj (biology: having no sex)

Icelandic

1 entries

hlutlaus adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Indonesian

1 entries

netral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Interlingua

2 entries

neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutre adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Irish

1 entries

neodrach noun (neutral hue)

Italian

4 entries

neutrale adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutrale adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)
neutro adj (having no obvious colour)
neutro adj (physics: possessing no charge)

Japanese

4 entries

中性の adj (grammar: neither positive nor negative)
中性の adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)
中立の adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
中立の adj (favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate)

Javanese

1 entries

nétral (krama/ngoko) adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Kazakh

1 entries

бейтарап adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Khiamniungan Naga

1 entries

vèmvēm adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Korean

2 entries

중립의 adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
중성의 adj (biology: having no sex)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

бейтарап adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Latvian

4 entries

neitrāls adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neitrāls adj (neither beneficial nor harmful)
neitrāls adj (physics: possessing no charge)
neitrāls adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)

Lithuanian

1 entries

neutralus adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Macedonian

4 entries

бесполен adj (biology: having no sex)
неутра́лен adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
неутра́лен adj (physics: possessing no charge)
среден adj (biology: having no sex)

Malay

1 entries

neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Māori

4 entries

arero taiaha adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
arero taiaha adj (favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate)
kūpapa adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
ngākau tapatahi adj (favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate)

Nepali

1 entries

तटस्थ adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries

nêtar adj (physics: possessing no charge)
nêtar adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

nøytral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
nøytral adj (having no obvious colour)
nøytral adj (physics: possessing no charge)
nøytral adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries

nøytral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
nøytral adj (having no obvious colour)
nøytral adj (physics: possessing no charge)
nøytral adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

بیطرف adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Persian

2 entries

بیطرف adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
خُنثیٰ adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Polish

3 entries

bezpłciowy adj (biology: having no sex)
bezstronny adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutralny adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Portuguese

4 entries

neutro adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutro adj (favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate)
neutro adj (grammar: neither positive nor negative)
neutro adj (neither beneficial nor harmful)

Romanian

4 entries

cenușiu adj (having no obvious colour)
imparțial adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutru adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Russian

3 entries

беспо́лый adj (biology: having no sex)
нейтра́льный adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
нейтра́льное noun (position of gears)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

nȅutrālan adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
не̏утра̄лан adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Slovak

2 entries

bezpohlavný adj (biology: having no sex)
neutrálny adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Slovene

1 entries

nevtralen adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Spanish

4 entries

neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
neutro adj (chemistry: neither acidic nor alkaline)
neutral noun (nonaligned state)
neutral noun (person who takes no side in a dispute)

Swedish

1 entries

neutral adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Tajik

1 entries

бетараф adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Tatar

2 entries

битараф adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
нейтраль adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Thai

1 entries

เป็นกลาง adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Turkish

3 entries

bitaraf adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
nötr adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
yansız adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Turkmen

1 entries

bitarap adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Ukrainian

2 entries

безстате́вий adj (biology: having no sex)
нейтра́льний adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Uyghur

1 entries

بىتەرەپ adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Uzbek

1 entries

betaraf adj (not taking sides in a conflict)

Vietnamese

2 entries

trung lập adj (not taking sides in a conflict)
trung lập adj (favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate)

Sample sentences

19 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The senator remained neutral in the furious controversy.

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That country remained neutral throughout World War II.

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Switzerland is a neutral country.

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We chose Father as a neutral judge of our disputes.

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