Pious vs Chaste - What's the difference?
pious | chaste |
Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
simple, austere, undecorative
modest, decent, morally pure
As adjectives the difference between pious and chaste
is that pious is of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, godfearing while chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.pious
English
Adjective
(-)- Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious .
Usage notes
* Sometimes used pejoratively, in the sense of "mistaken" or "false" piety, as in "pious errors", "pious frauds".Synonyms
* reverent, reverential, dutiful, religious, devout, godlyAntonyms
* (of or pertaining to piety) impious, independent, profaneDerived terms
* piously * piousnesschaste
English
Adjective
(er)- a chaste style in composition or art
- a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes