Religious vs Chaste - What's the difference?
religious | chaste |
Concerning religion.
Committed to the practice of religion.
Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 354:
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
simple, austere, undecorative
modest, decent, morally pure
As adjectives the difference between religious and chaste
is that religious is concerning religion while chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.As a noun religious
is a member of a religious order, ie a monk or nun.religious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
- I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
- I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
Antonyms
* (concerning religion) * (committed to religion) * (highly dedicated)Hyponyms
* Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha'i, Wiccan, Eckist, Druid, Jain, , Sikh, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Unitarian Universalist, New Ager, reconstructionist, LaVeyan Satanist, Scientologist, Rastafarian, Taoist, pagan, spiritist, humanist, Thelemite, ConfucianistNoun
(religious)- Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious , Scholastica.
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English
Adjective
(er)- a chaste style in composition or art
- a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes