Chaste vs Unornamented - What's the difference?
chaste | unornamented | Synonyms |
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
simple, austere, undecorative
modest, decent, morally pure
Not ornamented; without ornament
*{{quote-news, year=1988, date=April 29, author=Cerinda Survant, title=The Invisible Dancer, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The many repetitions of unornamented locomotor movement describing great diagonals do eventually wear. }}
Chaste is a synonym of unornamented.
As adjectives the difference between chaste and unornamented
is that chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate while unornamented is not ornamented; without ornament.chaste
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Adjective
(er)- a chaste style in composition or art
- a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes
Usage notes
* Married couples are often exhorted to have "chaste sex"--compare the Vatican encyclical Casti Connubii (Of Chaste Wedlock ).Derived terms
* chastitySee also
* pureAnagrams
* * * * * ----unornamented
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