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chaste 音標拼音: [tʃ'est] a. 貞潔的,純潔的,樸素的 貞潔的,純潔的,樸素的 chaste adj 1: morally pure ( especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); " a holy woman innocent and chaste" [ ant: { unchaste}] 2: pure and simple in design or style; " a chaste border of conventionalized flowers" 3: abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourseChaste \ Chaste\ ( ch[= a] st), a. [ F. chaste, from L. castus pure, chaste; cf. Gr. kaqaro` s pure, Skr. [, c] udh to purify.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. " As chaste as Diana." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art. [ 1913 Webster] That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Unmarried. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. Syn: Undefiled; pure; virtuous; continent; immaculate; spotless. [ 1913 Webster] { Chaste tree}. Same as { Agnus castus}. [ 1913 Webster] 173 Moby Thesaurus words for " chaste": Apostolic, Attic, Ciceronian, Encratic, Lenten, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abase, absolute, abstemious, abstinent, aesthetic, afflict, artistic, ascetic, austere, bare, basic, becoming, beyond all praise, blotless, castigate, celibate, chasten, chastise, choice, classic, classical, clean, cleanly, clear, common, commonplace, continent, correct, decent, decorous, defectless, direct, discipline, easy, elegant, elementary, essential, ethical, everyday, excellent, faultless, finished, flawless, fruitarian, fundamental, garden, garden- variety, good, graceful, gracile, guiltless, homely, homespun, homogeneous, household, humble, humiliate, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, in good taste, indefectible, indefective, indivisible, infallible, innocent, irreducible, irreproachable, just right, limpid, lucid, maidenly, matter- of- fact, mere, modest, monolithic, moral, natural, neat, nephalistic, nondescript, of a piece, of choice, of quality, on the wagon, ordinary, peerless, pellucid, perfect, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, primal, primary, proper, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple, pure in heart, purehearted, quiet, refined, restrained, righteous, round, seemly, severe, sexually abstinent, sexually innocent, simon- pure, simple, single, sinless, snowy, spare, spotless, stainless, stark, straightforward, subdued, sworn off, taintless, tasteful, teetotal, terse, trim, try, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unblemished, unblotted, uncluttered, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, undecorated, undefiled, understated, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unembellished, unfaultable, uniform, unlabored, unmixed, unobtrusive, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, vegetarian, virgin, virginal, virtuous, well- chosen, white, wholesome, workaday, workday |
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