chastely

1. 1.

   in a chaste and virtuous manner

   “she lived chastely”

   Synonymsvirtuously

Questions about chastely

What does chastely mean?

chastely means "in a chaste and virtuous manner".

How many syllables are in chastely?

chastely has 3 syllables: cha-ste-ly. The stress falls on "cha".

What is another word for chastely?

Close synonyms include virtuously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chastely a common word?

chastely is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.