Common vs. Neuter — What's the Difference?

Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint

Neither masculine nor feminine in gender.

Of or relating to the community as a whole; public

Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs.

Widespread; prevalent

Having undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs

Occurring frequently or habitually; usual

Having pistils and stamens that are nonfunctional or absent.

Most widely known; ordinary

Castrated or spayed. Used of animals.

Having no special designation, status, or rank

Androgynous or asexual.

Not distinguished by superior or noteworthy characteristics; average

(Archaic) Taking no side in a dispute; neutral.

Of no special quality; standard

The neuter gender.

Of mediocre or inferior quality; second-rate

A neuter word.

Unrefined or coarse in manner; vulgar

A neuter noun.

Either masculine or feminine in gender.

An androgynous or asexual person.

Representing one or all of the members of a class; not designating a unique entity.

A castrated animal.

Commons The common people; commonalty.

An insect that has undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs, such as a worker bee.

The social class composed of commoners.

(Archaic) One that is neutral in a dispute.

The parliamentary representatives of this class.

To castrate or spay.

Commons The House of Commons.

To render ineffective or powerless

A tract of land, usually in a centrally located spot, belonging to or used by a community as a whole

Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

The legal right of a person to use the lands or waters of another, as for fishing.

(grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.

Commons(used with a sing. verb) A building or hall for dining, typically at a university or college.

(grammar) Intransitive.

Common stock.

(biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

(Ecclesiastical) A service used for a particular class of festivals.

(literary) Sexless, nonsexual.

Mutual; shared by more than one.

(biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.

A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.

(grammar) The neuter gender.

Simple, ordinary or vulgar.

(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

(grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.

(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

(grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.

To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal, i.e., common name vs. scientific name.

To rid of sexuality.

(obsolete) Profane; polluted.

Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

(obsolete) Given to lewd habits; prostitute.

Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

Mutual good, shared by more than one.

A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

A tract of land in common ownership; common land.

A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

The people; the community.

An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

(legal) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; - in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.

(obsolete) To communicate (something).

A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

(obsolete) To converse, talk.

Remove the ovaries of;

(obsolete) To have sex.

Of grammatical gender;

(obsolete) To participate.

Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

(obsolete) To have a joint right with others in common ground.

(obsolete) To board together; to eat at a table in common.

Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.

Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.

Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.

Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; - often in a depreciatory sense.

Profane; polluted.

Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.

The people; the community.

An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.

The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; - so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.

To converse together; to discourse; to confer.

To participate.

To have a joint right with others in common ground.

To board together; to eat at a table in common.

A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area;

Belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public;

Of no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual;

Common to or shared by two or more parties;

Commonly encountered;

Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;

Of or associated with the great masses of people;

Of low or inferior quality or value;

Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste;

To be expected; standard;