unsex

Other forms of unsex

past tense

unsexed·

present participle

unsexing·

third person

unsexes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unsex

What does unsex mean?

unsex means "deprive of sex or sexual powers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unsex?

unsex has 2 syllables: un-sex. The stress falls on "sex".

What is another word for unsex?

Close synonyms include sterilize, sterilise, desex, desexualize, desexualise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unsex a common word?

unsex is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.