chaste

Adjective

• Abstaining from sexual intercourse; morally pure or modest.
• morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)
  • "a holy woman innocent and chaste"

Adjective Satellite

• pure and simple in design or style
  • "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers"
• abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse

Adj

• Synonym of pure and virtuous, particularly
• Sexually pure, abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse.
• Synonym of pure and virtuous, particularly
• Synonym of celibate, abstaining from any sexual intercourse.
• Synonym of pure and virtuous, particularly
• Synonym of virginal, innocent, having or providing no sexual knowledge or experience.
• Synonym of pure and virtuous, particularly
• Synonym of modest, particularly (sexism) in reference to behavior expected of sexually pure women.
• Synonym of pure and virtuous, particularly
• Synonym of austere, plain, unextravagant, particularly demure, sexually discreet.

Examples

• Her upbringing had been so chaste that her first experience French kissing ended in a panicked dash to the Piggly Wiggly to buy a home pregnancy test, just in case.
• His Scrabble strategy was CHASTE, avoiding risky plays for solid, dependable scores.
• I ask again what reason could a chaste woman possibly have for being out so late? and in that part of town? Your Honor, we repeat our motion that you recuse yourself from this case.
• The chaste style of most early modern novels is elegant but intensely boring, particularly for teenagers too inexperienced to effectively read between the lines.
• Theirs was a chaste marriage, cold and sexless.
• Theirs was a chaste marriage, loving and content.

Synonyms

abstaining from any sexual intercourse, austere, bare, celibate, chaste, having or providing no sexual knowledge or experience, innocent, inornate, modest, particularly, particularly demure, plain, quiet, severe, sexually discreet, simple, spartan, unadorned, undecked, unembellished, unextravagant, ungarnished, unornamented, untrimmed, unvarnished, virginal

Antonyms

unchaste

Related Words

CHASTELY