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7-letter words (1 found)

ASEXUAL,

6-letter words (2 found)

SAXAUL,SEXUAL,

5-letter words (7 found)

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4-letter words (27 found)

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3-letter words (29 found)

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Definitions and meaning of asexual

asexual

Etymology

From a- (“lacking, without”) +‎ -sexual.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /eɪˈsɛkʃuəl/

Adjective

asexual (not comparable)

  1. Nonsexual in nature, unmarked by sexual activity.
    Coordinate term: platonic
  2. (especially of a person) Not experiencing sexual attraction; lacking interest in or desire for sex.
    Synonyms: (slang) ace, (slang) asexy, a-spec
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:asexual.
  3. (biology) Lacking distinct sex, lacking sexual organs.
    Synonym: epicene
  4. (biology) Without sexual action; reproducing by some other method than sex.
    asexual reproduction

Antonyms

  • allosexual

Coordinate terms

  • (sexual orientations) sexual orientation; asexual (-ity, ace), bisexual (-ity, bi), demisexual (-ity, demi), graysexual (-ity), heterosexual (-ity, straight), homosexual (-ity, gay, lesbian), omnisexual (-ity), pansexual (-ity, pan), plurisexual (-ity), polysexual (-ity), robosexual (-ity), sapiosexual (-ity), androsexual (-ity), gynesexual (-ity), vegansexual (-ity) (Category: en:Sexual orientations)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

asexual (plural asexuals)

  1. (biology) A species which reproduces by asexual rather than sexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
    • 2009, Isa Schön, Giampaolo Rossetti, Koen Martens, Darwinulid Ostracods: Ancient Asexual Scandals or Scandalous Gossip?, published as Chapter 11 of Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis, Isa Schön, Koen Martens, Peter van Dijk (editors), page 221:
      11.2 Demonstrating the Status of Long-Lived Asexuals
      [...] Indeed, if sex has so many advantages, then which special adaptations - if any - allow long-term survival without it? However, the main task of the research teams dealing with such putative ancient asexuals has thus far been to demonstrate that their respective groups (mainly bdelloids, darwinulids and certain lineages within orbatid mites) indeed merit the status.
  2. A person who does not experience sexual attraction; a person who lacks interest in or desire for sex.
  3. (rare) Something which does not have a sex, or a word which refers to such a thing.

Antonyms

  • allosexual

Translations

Usage notes

  • Asexual (in the sense of lacking sexual attraction or desire) should not be confused with hyposexual (see usage notes at hyposexuality) or non-libidoist.

See also

  • (romantic orientations) romantic orientation; aromantic (-ism), biromantic (-ism), demiromantic (-ism), heteroromantic (-ism), homoromantic (-ism), panromantic (-ism), transromantic (Category: en:Romantic orientations)
  • fission, gemmation

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.sək.suˈal]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [a.sek.suˈal]

Adjective

asexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural asexuals)

  1. asexual

Noun

asexual m or f by sense (plural asexuals)

  1. asexual

Antonyms

  • sexual

Related terms

  • asexualitat

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /asekˈswal/ [a.s̺ekˈs̺wɑɫ]
  • Rhymes: -al

Adjective

asexual m or f (plural asexuais)

  1. asexual

Noun

asexual m or f by sense (plural asexuais)

  1. asexual

Antonyms

  • sexual

Further reading

  • “asexual” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

a +‎ sexual.

Pronunciation

Adjective

asexual (strong nominative masculine singular asexualer, not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) asexual

Declension

Related terms

  • asexuell

Further reading

  • “asexual” in Duden online
  • “asexual” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English asexual. Equivalent to a- +‎ sexual.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aseksuˈal]

Adjective

asexual m or n (feminine singular asexuală, masculine plural asexuali, feminine and neuter plural asexuale)

  1. asexual

Declension

Noun

asexual m (plural asexuali)

  1. asexual

Declension

Related terms

  • asexualitate

Spanish

Etymology

From a- +‎ sexual.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aseɡˈswal/ [a.seɣ̞ˈswal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: a‧se‧xual

Adjective

asexual m or f (masculine and feminine plural asexuales)

  1. asexual

Derived terms

Noun

asexual m or f by sense (plural asexuales)

  1. asexual

Further reading

  • “asexual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org