chaste

1. 1.

   morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)

   “a holy woman innocent and chaste”

   Antonymsunchaste

   Similarcelibatepure
2. 2.

   pure and simple in design or style

   “a chaste border of conventionalized flowers”

   Similarplain
3. 3.

   abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse

   Similarmoral

Other forms of chaste

comparative

chaster·

superlative

chastest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chaste

What does chaste mean?

chaste means "morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chaste?

chaste has 1 syllable: chaste. In IPA it is /ˈtʃeɪst/.

What is the opposite of chaste?

The recorded antonyms are unchaste.

Is chaste a common word?

chaste is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with chaste?

1 word rhymes with chaste. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.