ADJECTIVE | all | chaste | morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse) |
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all | chaste | pure and simple in design or style | |
all | chaste | abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse |
Sounds | chey'st | |
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Rhymes | aftertaste ... waste: 25 rhymes with eyst... |
Meaning | morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse). | |
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Example | "a holy woman innocent and chaste" | |
Attribute of | virginity | The condition or quality of being a virgin |
virtue, chastity, sexual morality | morality with respect to sexual relations | |
Narrower | celibate, continent | Abstaining from sexual intercourse |
pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous | In a state of sexual virginity | |
See also | moral | concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles |
pure | (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults | |
virtuous | morally excellent | |
Opposite | unchaste | not chaste |
Spanish | casto | |
Catalan | cast | |
Nouns | chastity | morality with respect to sexual relations |
Adverbs | chastely | in a chaste and virtuous manner |
Meaning | pure and simple in design or style. | |
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Example | "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers" | |
Broader | plain | not elaborate or elaborated |
Spanish | casto | |
Nouns | chasteness | lack of ornamentation |
Meaning | Abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse. | |
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Broader | moral | concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles |
Spanish | casto | |
Nouns | chastity | abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) |
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