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Another word for chaste

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Adjective

  1. Morally beyond reproach, especially in sexual conduct

    See also:

    sex

    restraint

    good

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Another word for chaste

Modifier

  1. Restrained

    See also:

    modest

    Antonyms:

  2. Morally pure

    See also:

    righteous

    pure

    innocent

    decent

    Antonyms:

  3. Sexually abstinent

    Antonyms:

Synonym Study

  • Modest and decent are both applied to propriety in behavior, dress, bearing, or speech as exhibiting moral purity
  • Pure implies chastity through innocence and an absence of seductive influences rather than through self-restraint
  • Chaste and virtuous , in this connection, imply forbearance from acts or thoughts that do not accord with virginity or strict marital fidelity
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Sentence Examples

  • In his personal conduct he was chaste, temperate and sincerely pious.

  • If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

  • 792842 Called the Chaste, son of Froila.

  • One who had thus fulfilled the duties of the student order must "go forth remaining chaste," says the Apastamba, ii.

  • As a prose writer he is chaste and elegant, generally just, and realistically descriptive.

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