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Definition of chaste :
1. Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
2. Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.
3. Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.
4. Unmarried.
Synonyms:
genuine, unstained, guileless, antiseptic, celibacy, sexless, absolute, unmixed, spick-and-span, chastity, lewd, coarse, G-rated, unmingled, pristine, controlled, proper, lascivious, unsoiled, platonic, lecherous, impotent, real, moral, uncorrupted, debauched, righteous, upright, chastity belt, continent, sheer, classical, mere, unchaste, wholesome, sex, frigid, restraint, holy, fair, perfect, incorrupt, classic, nice, good, vestal, unpolluted, squeaky-clean, true, decorous
innocent (part of speech: adjective)
naive, pure-hearted, innocuous, childlike, snowy, unspotted, unsophisticated
celibate (part of speech: adjective)
maiden, virginal, solitary, monkish, unplowed, bachelor, abstemious, old maid, celibate, abstinent, single, ascetic, intact, alone, unmarried, unwed, virgin, asexual, spinsterish, monastic, lone
pure (part of speech: adjective)
basic, irreducible, blameless, angelic, primal, pure, aboriginal, immaculate, formative, primary, undiluted, purebred, basal, honorable, elementary, unadulterated, spotless, uncluttered, innocent, unsullied, undefiled, unblemished, essential, sinless, guiltless, simon-pure, stainless, monolithic, prime, nascent, faultless, austere, decent, stark, unadorned, white, unalloyed, virtuous, clean, bare, elemental, clear, atomic, untarnished, untainted, plain, indivisible, foundational, fundamental, simple
restrained (part of speech: adjective)
severe, ornate, Spartan, subdued, modest, prudish, gaudy, academic
simple (part of speech: adjective)
crystalline, artless, spare, direct, refined, terse, bald, candid, uncomplicated
Usage examples:
- The language is chaste and exalted. - "The Story of Our Hymns", Ernest Edwin Ryden.
- " For the present," he went on, " read deep and lie chaste, and so farewell." - "The God of Love", Justin Huntly McCarthy.
- It was simple and severely chaste. - "Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis", G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke.