Definition of genderlessnext
as in androgynous
suitable to or for either sex a trendy boutique selling genderless accessories—bandannas, caps, bracelets, etc.

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Recent Examples of genderless Kristen Johnston played Sally Solomon, the mission’s tough enforcer who struggled hilariously with human emotions and stereotypical female archetypes, given that their alien species was genderless before coming to Earth. Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026 In October of that same year, a young woman from Rhode Island named Jemima Wilkinson claimed to have died and been reborn as a genderless messenger sent by God to save lost souls. Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026 The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally. Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 Today’s feminism seems to want this model to be genderless. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for genderless
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Adjective
  • Male midwives attempted to resolve this tension with their perfectly androgynous hands.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Prince, the at times outrageous, androgynous, one-man-band performer and producer, backed up his genius rep by pulling off one of the most unlikely coups in rock history after unleashing the multi-platinum 1984 Purple Rain soundtrack and Oscar-winning film.
    Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026
Adjective
  • These disadvantages predict that unisexual species should go extinct within at most 100,000 generations.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Not unisexual mole salamanders, which reproduce primarily by cloning and sometimes snatch other species' sperm to kickstart their reproductive systems.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017

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“Genderless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genderless. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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