What does chaste mean?
Definitions for chaste
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Princeton's WordNet
chasteadjective
morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)
"a holy woman innocent and chaste"
chasteadjective
pure and simple in design or style
"a chaste border of conventionalized flowers"
chasteadjective
abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse
Wiktionary
chasteadjective
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
chasteadjective
virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
chasteadjective
simple, austere, undecorative
chasteadjective
modest, decent, morally pure
Etymology: From chaste, from castus.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
CHASTEadjective
Etymology: chaste, Fr. castus, Lat.
Among words which signify the same principal ideas, some are clean and decent, others unclean; some chaste, others obscene. Isaac Watts, Logick.
Love your children, be discreet, chaste, keepers at home. Titus, ii. 5.
ChatGPT
chaste
Chaste refers to the state of being pure or abstinent, often in a sexual context. It is characterized by modesty, decency and refraining from engaging in extramarital or premarital sexual activity. This term can also denote innocence or cleanliness in a broad sense.
Webster Dictionary
Chasteadjective
pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent
Chasteadjective
pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes
Chasteadjective
pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art
Chasteadjective
unmarried
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Chaste
chāst, adj. modest; refined; virtuous: pure in taste and style.—adv. Chaste′ly.—ns. Chaste′ness, the quality of being chaste; Chas′tity, sexual purity: virginity: refinement of language: moderation. [O. Fr. chaste—L. castus, pure.]
Anagrams for chaste »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of chaste in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of chaste in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of chaste in a Sentence
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.
Overall, I would give vitex or chaste berry a thumbs up.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
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