unchaste
/'ʌn'tʃeist/
Definition
- Adjective:
- Not chaste; lacking sexual purity or restraint: Describes a person, behavior, or lifestyle that does not conform to accepted standards of sexual morality, often implying promiscuity or impurity.
- Lewd or lascivious: Can describe something, such as language or conduct, that is characterized by or incites lustful thoughts or desires.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The novel's protagonist was criticized by society for her unchaste behavior.
- In the historical drama, accusations of being unchaste could ruin a woman's reputation.
- The preacher condemned the unchaste thoughts that lead to sinful actions.
Advanced Usage
- "unchaste life": A lifestyle characterized by a lack of sexual restraint.
- He repented for his former unchaste life.
- "unchaste reputation": A public perception of someone as being sexually impure.
- Rumors spread, giving her an unchaste reputation she did not deserve.
Variants and Related Words
- Unchastity (n): The state or quality of being unchaste.
- The sermon focused on the dangers of unchastity.
- Chaste (adj): The direct antonym, meaning pure, celibate, or modest in sexual matters.
- She led a chaste and devout life.
Synonyms
- Immodest: Lacking modesty, especially in sexual matters.
- Promiscuous: Having many casual sexual partners.
- Lascivious: Feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire.
- Lewd: Crude and offensive in a sexual way.
Antonyms
- Chaste: Abstaining from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse; pure.
- Virtuous: Having or showing high moral standards.
- Pure: Free of any contamination (moral or physical).
Related Idioms and Phrases
- "Lead an unchaste life": To live in a way that is not sexually pure or restrained.
- The biography claimed the artist led an unchaste life in his youth.
- "Unchaste woman/man": A dated, often judgmental term for a person perceived as sexually immoral.
- The old laws were unfairly harsh toward any woman labeled an unchaste woman.
Adjective
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not chaste
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unchaste conduct
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