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Girlish vs Chaste - What's the difference?

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Girlish is a related term of chaste.


As adjectives the difference between girlish and chaste

is that girlish is like a girl; feminine while chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.

girlish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a girl; feminine.
  • Of or relating to girlhood.
  • * Carew
    • In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.

    See also

    * boyish * womanish

    chaste

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
  • virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
  • simple, austere, undecorative
    • a chaste style in composition or art
  • modest, decent, morally pure
    • 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

    * chastity

    See also

    * pure

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