sexless

From sex +‎ -less. Compare sexful.

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1. Without sexual activity.

   They have a sexless marriage.

   • 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:

     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.

2. Without physical or behavioral sexual distinction.
3. Provoking or showing no sexual desire.

   A small child is sexless.

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:

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

4. Without sex appeal. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• sex-free, sexfree
• (without intimacy): loveless
• (without sexual activity since birth): virgin, virginal
• (without sexual activity by choice): celibate, chaste; asexual

• genderless