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Definition of celibate:

One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.
state; celibacy.
Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

Synonyms:

celibacy, chastity, continent, chaste, chastity belt, sexless, frigid.

ascetic (part of speech: adjective)
- hermit-like,
- parsimonious,
- abstinent,
- Spartan,
- stark,
- penitential,
- Franciscan,
- monastic,
- teetotaling,
- ascetic,
- lenten,
- repentant,
- stoic,
- dry,
- severe,
- Trappist,
- austere,
- abstemious,
- miserly
celibate (part of speech: noun)
- monastic,
- alone,
- ascetic,
- abstemious,
- asexual,
- single,
- lone,
- virgin,
- intact,
- maiden,
- unwed,
- old maid,
- unmarried,
- solitary,
- virginal,
- bachelor,
- spinster,
- unplowed,
- old maid,
- ascetic,
- pure,
- monk,
- spinsterish,
- maiden,
- chaste,
- hermit,
- monkish,
- abstinent,
- virgin,
- bachelor

Usage examples:

In deducing fairly, from the phenomena of her life, the character of Elizabeth, she necessarily became a type of two great mental struggles of the Middle Age; first, of that between Scriptural or unconscious, and Popish or conscious, purity: in a word, between innocence and prudery; next, of the struggle between healthy human affection, and the Manichean contempt with which a celibate clergy would have all men regard the names of husband, wife, and parent.

- "The Saint's Tragedy", Charles Kingsley.
You're not compelled, by the same necessity, and I may yet see you sliding down the primrose path, whereas I shall inevitably end my days in the odour of sanctity- probably a parish worker to some celibate vicar!

- "The Splendid Folly", Margaret Pedler.
But were I even refused orders I should still remain celibate.

- "Dreamers of the Ghetto", I. Zangwill.