Definitions

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

  • adjective Having low sexual desire or potency.

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  • adjective Lacking sufficient sexual desire or activity; sexually unfulfilled; sexually frustrated.

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

  • adjective having a subnormal degree of sexual desire

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Examples

  • Overworked and undersexed stay-at-home moms might be tempted by the strapping young buck with the weed whacker.

    Greg Olear: 8 Reasons Why Stay-at-Home Dads Are Better Than Stay-at-Home Moms Greg Olear 2011

  • There is no way to say this without marking yourself as an undersexed loser.

    Matthew Yglesias » Show Me the Votes 2009

  • Here is Vice President Dick Cheney looking at a hand, allowing legions of undersexed bloggers to pretend that a hand is a naked woman (and probably not for the first time).

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Here is Vice President Dick Cheney looking at a hand, allowing legions of undersexed bloggers to pretend that a hand is a naked woman (and probably not for the first time).

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Somehow, we found each other amidst the flaming gays and oversexed (or undersexed?) girls.

    A song of the past. « 2008

  • Most disturbingly, Matthew's analysis of the war consisted of how it rated with undersexed housewives:

    Ben Cohen: Ten Democrats Who Should Go Away 2009

  • The only people wondering why this is are ugly women looking for the satisfaction that comes from the self righteous indignation when someone ogles or poses some innuendo them being topless, and horny undersexed men who just want to see boobs and fantasize the only boobs they would see if women walked around topless are the pretty perky ones.

    Support Topless Women 2007

  • The contemporary average Pinoy reader is a twenty-something undergrad reading Twilight in the dark, with enough foundation in grammar (in English, at that) to read and understand and be absorbed by a novel-length elaboration of undersexed teenage angst filtered through post-Victorian emo goth vampire horror (after all, market hype can only go as far as making people buy the book; they have to read it, too).

    "Killing Our Literary Daddies And Mommies" 2009

  • If we switch the view from this being sexy, to this being a pathetic attempt to make an undersexed male feel powerful in the face of female accomplishment, the image loses its appeal.

    Alex Leo: Five Sexist Trends the Advertising World Just Can't Shake 2009

  • "She's rather dim and kind of tubby - undereducated and undersexed - and she displays a distressing affinity for mom jeans and sweaters covered in puffy paint and appliquéd kittens."

    Joanne Rendell: Heaving Bosoms: A Tonic for the Recession? 2009

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