NONEROTIC Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

nonerotic

adjective

Definition of nonerotic

as in unerotic

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Adjective

The director Ninja Thyberg’s new film is graphic yet deeply unerotic.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.

— Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022

Definition of unerotic

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Music of the margins — which before neoperreo was punk rock and hip-hop — had been framed in opposition to polite society.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The emergency response agents were always polite and professional, and two-way communications came through loud and clear.

— John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of polite

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Any function whose work can be pointed at a proper model of its underlying business, instead of at a general-purpose language model, is starting to compound the same way Anthropic’s engineering did a year ago.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Pentecostal parents Ruth and Marius were accused of domestic violence, with worldwide protests criticizing what dissenters called harsh and hasty steps taken by Norwegian social workers without proper evidence.

— Tomris Laffly, Time, 23 Oct. 2026

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