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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no evident sex or sex organs; sexless.
  • adjective Relating to, produced by, or involving reproduction that occurs without the union of male and female gametes, as in binary fission or budding.
  • adjective Relating to or being a person who does not experience sexual attraction.
  • noun A person who does not experience sexual attraction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not sexual; not sexed; having no sex, as a species or other group of animals which have no sexual system or organs.
  • Neuter; being of neither sex, as some individuals of species in which other individuals are male or female, or as some stages in the growth of individuals which later develop into male or female.
  • Effected or produced by other than sexual processes; agamic; agamogenetic: as, asexual reproduction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Having no distinct sex; without sexual action. See fission and gemmation.
  • adjective not involving sexual activity or sexual attraction.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not experiencing sexual attraction; lacking interest in or desire for sex.
  • adjective Not sexual in nature, not marked by sexual activity. (Compare Platonic.)
  • adjective biology Having no distinct sex, having no sexual organs.
  • adjective biology Without sexual action; reproducing by some other method than sex.
  • noun biology A species which reproduces by asexual rather than sexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
  • noun A person who does not experience sexual attraction; a person who lacks interest in or desire for sex.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not having or involving sex

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From a- (“lacking, without”) +‎ sexual.

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Examples

  • The changes in asexual reproduction are more likely to be a “single point mutation” and get copied in every successive generation.

    Think Progress » Poll: Large Number Of Texans Doubt The Theory Of Evolution, Believe In Human-Dinosaur Coexistence 2010

  • The trouble with being asexual is that your genome is passed on as a single, monolithic block, rather than shuffled up as happens during the sexy sex.

    FFS amuchmoreexotic 2008

  • This guy is just scared to bang it out. just now, -0 / +0We chose the name asexual because we were trying to choose a "correct" name.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • Someone might identify as asexual, meaning that he or she does not feel sexual desire.

    Express Milwaukee 2008

  • One of his friends is quoted in the book recalling a night when Wood seems to have confessed to being chastely asexual, which is not implausible.

    NYT > Home Page By DEBORAH SOLOMON 2010

  • Her fiance (who does not identify as asexual) sounds like a pretty wise man.

    BlogHer 2009

  • But for a small and nearly invisible part of the population, who identify as asexual, sex with another person is a not a need.

    BlogHer 2009

  • Or believe that those who identify as asexual feel, or are, somehow incomplete.

    BlogHer 2009

  • Or believe that those who identify as asexual feel, or are, somehow incomplete.

    BlogHer 2009

  • Her fiance (who does not identify as asexual) sounds like a pretty wise man.

    BlogHer 2009

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