| Main Entry: | emasculate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken, deprive of force |
Synonyms: |
alter, debilitate, devitalize, enervate, fix*, impoverish, vitiate |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, help |
| Main Entry: | alter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sterilize animal |
Synonyms: |
caponize, castrate, change, desexualize, emasculate, fix, geld, mutilate, neuter, spay, unsex |
| Main Entry: | castrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove sexual organs |
Synonyms: |
alter, asexualize, caponize, change, cut, deprive of virility, desexualize, emasculate, eunuchize, fix, geld, mutilate, neuter, spay, sterilize, unsex |
| Main Entry: | geld |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | castrate |
Synonyms: |
alter*, emasculate, eunuchize, fix*, neuter, spay, sterilize, unman |
| Main Entry: | sterilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make clean or unproductive |
Synonyms: |
alter, antisepticize, autoclave, castrate, change, clean, decontaminate, desexualize, disinfect, emasculate, fix, fumigate, incapacitate, make sterile, neuter, pasteurize, purify, sanitize, spay |
Antonyms: |
dirty |
| Main Entry: | castrated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emasculated |
Synonyms: |
altered, desexed, effeminate, emasculate, fixed, impotent, unmanned |
| Main Entry: | ineffective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | useless |
Synonyms: |
abortive, anticlimactic, barren, bootless, defeasible, emasculate, feckless, feeble, forceless, fruitless, futile, idle, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inferior, innocuous, inoperative, lame, limited, neutralized, no go, no way, not effective, nugatory, null, paltry, powerless, slack-spined, spineless, unable, unavailable, unavailing, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, vain, void, withered, worthless |
| Notes: | ineffectual refers to a general or habitual lack of success in the carrying out of one's projects; ineffective refers to a specific or definite failure to perform a task or accomplish a purpose |
Antonyms: |
effective |
| Main Entry: | unmanly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feminine |
Synonyms: |
effeminate, emasculate, sissy, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanlike, womanish, womanly |
Antonyms: |
manlike, manly |
| Main Entry: | devitalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish |
Synonyms: |
deaden, debilitate, desiccate, destroy, disembowel, emasculate, enervate, eviscerate, exenterate, weaken |
Antonyms: |
vitalize |
| Main Entry: | epicene |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak |
Synonyms: |
drained, effeminate, effete, emasculate, enervated, exhausted, faint, feeble, feminine, flaccid, frail, powerless, sissy, sissyish, soft, tired, unmanly, womanish, worn out |