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unsexual

unsexual adjective: not sexual.

Adjective

unsexual (not comparable)

  1. Not sexual.
    • 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.1970, Herbert Eliot French, Of rivers and the sea, page 189
    • Other nonballet movements — one man landing out of the blue on another man’s neck and staying there (oddly comic), or a man running backward around the stage in decelerating and decreasing circles (an absorbing minimalist effect) — become peculiar strokes of poetry. Mr. Parker gives his most...2007 May 10, Alastair Macaulay, “Stomp, Sneeze, Grunt, Gasp and All That Body Language”, in New York Times

Origin of unsexual

From un- + sexual. Piecewise doublet of asexual.

Words formed from unsexual

Questions about unsexual

What does unsexual mean?
Unsexual means not sexual.
What part of speech is unsexual?
Unsexual is an adjective.

Words near unsexual in the dictionary

  1. unsexily
  2. unsexiness
  3. unsexing
  4. unsexist
  5. unsexlike
  6. unsexual
  7. unsexualised
  8. unsexuality
  9. unsexualize
  10. unsexualized
  11. unsexually

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