chaste

/tʃeɪst/

/tʃeɪst/

Other forms: chastest; chaster

If you belong to a chastity club, you might have to take a pledge to be chaste until marriage. Chaste can be defined as "pure and virtuous," but basically it means "not having sex."

This word is related to the Latin source of the verb castrate "to remove a man's testicles," so it's definitely related to sex. And chaste is from the same Latin source as the noun caste "a Hindu social class separated from other classes." So the word chaste means no sex, and the word caste means pure and virtuous.

Definitions of chaste

1. adjective

   abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse
   synonyms:

   moral

   concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles
2. adjective

   morally pure
   “a holy woman innocent and chaste”

   synonyms:

   celibate, continent

   abstaining from sexual intercourse

   pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous

   in a state of sexual virginity

   moral

   concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

   pure

   (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless

   virtuous

   morally excellent

   antonyms:

   unchaste

   not chaste

   cyprian

   resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus

   easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton

   casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

   fallen

   having lost your chastity

   licentious

   lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained

   immoral

   deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

   impure

   (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene
3. adjective

   pure and simple in design or style
   “a chaste border of conventionalized flowers”

   synonyms:

   plain

   not elaborate or elaborated; simple