virginal

1. 1.

   characteristic of a virgin or virginity

   “virginal white dresses”
2. 2.

   untouched or undefiled

   “nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage”

   Similarpure
3. 3.

   in a state of sexual virginity

   “pure and vestal modesty”

   “a spinster or virgin lady”

   “men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal”

   Synonymspurevestalvirginvirtuous

   Similarchaste

1. 1.

   a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries

   Synonymspair of virginals

   Broaderharpsichord

Other forms of virginal

plural

virginals·

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 virginal

What does virginal mean?

virginal means "characteristic of a virgin or virginity". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in virginal?

virginal has 3 syllables: vir-gi-nal. The stress falls on "vir". In IPA it is /ˈvɝdʒənəl/.

What is another word for virginal?

Close synonyms include pure, vestal, virgin, virtuous, pair of virginals. 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 virginal a common word?

virginal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.