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Youthful vs Chaste - What's the difference?

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Youthful is a related term of chaste.


As adjectives the difference between youthful and chaste

is that youthful is young or seeming young while chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.

youthful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Young or seeming young.
  • Characteristic of young people.

    • Synonyms

    * lively * sprightly * spry * young

    Derived terms

    * youthful river

    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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