eunuchoid

[ yoo-nuh-koid ]

adjective

1. affected with eunuchoidism.

noun

1. a person affected with eunuchoidism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eunuchoid¹

First recorded in 1905–10; eunuch + -oid

Example Sentences

I read about Klinefelter’s Syndrome, where an extra X chromosome renders a person tall, eunuchoid, and temperamentally unpleasant.

From Literature

On her journey to nowhere, Sophie caroms off a number of archetypes over-familiar to readers of the urban novel: eunuchoid males, knife-edged women's libertarians, garrulous old leftists, jittery blacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

If men are docile and "eunuchoid," it is their own fault.

From Time Magazine Archive

Never in history has any country contained such a high proportion of cowed and eunuchoid males, drilled with Prussian thoroughness to shun all household sins.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But judicious," Natalenko squeaked, in the high eunuchoid voice that came so incongruously from his bulk.

From Project Gutenberg