sexless

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adjective

Without sexual activity.

“A small child is sexless.”

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Meanings

adjectivesexless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout sexual activity.

    They have a sexless marriage.

    1 more example

    They’re sexually active and eager throughout the first nine seasons, so this isn’t like the show breathing life into a sexless sitcom couple from the 1950s.

    2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 16 May 2017

    Synonyms: virgin, virginal, celibate, chaste, asexual

  2. not comparableWithout physical or behavioral sexual distinction.
  3. not comparableProvoking or showing no sexual desire.

    A small child is sexless.

    1 more example

    The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.

    1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171
  4. not comparableWithout sex appeal.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWithout sexual activity.

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virginvirginalcelibatechasteasexual
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sex-freesexfree

without intimacy

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loveless

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivehaving no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

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neuterasexualnonsexual

adjectivehaving no sexual desire

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unsexy

adjectivesexually unattractive

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unsexy
Also see
asexualgenderlessneuterneutralunsexy

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From sex + -less. Compare sexful.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Afrikaans geslagloos, seksloos
  • geslagloosnot having sexual characteristics
  • seksloosnot having sexual relations
Bulgarian безпо́лов, фриги́ден
  • безпо́лов (bezpólov)not having sexual characteristics
  • фриги́ден (frigíden)not having sexual relations
Chinese Mandarin 無性 /无性
  • 無性 /无性 (wúxìng)not having sexual characteristics
Czech bezpohlavní
  • bezpohlavnínot having sexual characteristics
Dutch geslachtloos, seksloos
  • geslachtloosnot having sexual characteristics
  • seksloosnot having sexual relations
Finnish sukupuoleton, seksitön
  • sukupuoletonnot having sexual characteristics
  • seksitönnot having sexual relations
French asexué
  • asexuénot having sexual characteristics
German geschlechtslos
  • geschlechtslosnot having sexual characteristics
Japanese 無性の
  • 無性の (musei no)not having sexual characteristics
Korean 중성의
  • 중성의 (jungseong-ui)not having sexual characteristics
Norwegian Bokmål kjønnsløs
  • kjønnsløsnot having sexual characteristics
Polish bezpłciowy, bez seksu
  • bezpłciowynot having sexual characteristics
  • bez seksunot having sexual relations
Russian беспо́лый
  • беспо́лый (bespólyj)not having sexual characteristics
Slovak bezpohlavný, bez sexu
  • bezpohlavnýnot having sexual characteristics
  • bez sexunot having sexual relations
Ukrainian безстате́вий
  • безстате́вий (bezstatévyj)not having sexual characteristics
Cite this entry
APA

sexless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sexless

MLA

“sexless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sexless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sexless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sexless.

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