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Definition: Unchaste |
UnchasteAdjective1. Not chaste; "unchaste conduct". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unchaste" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Chastity is commonly used to mean sexual abstinence, especially abstinence from sexual intercourse, particularly for moral or religious reasons. The term can also be used to mean conformance with sexual morals, particularly faithfulness to a spouse.Chastity is a virtue expected of the faithful of many religions, including Christians and Muslims. This usually includes abstinence from sex for the unmarried, and faithfulness to a marriage partner. In many religions some groups of people are expected to practice absolute chastity, i.e. to abstain from sex completely, and remain unmarried. These groups include most monks and nuns in Christianity, and priests in the Roman Catholic church.
Some groups that propose it consider sexual abstinence as an essential means to reach a particular intellectual or spiritual condition, or they may consider that chastity allows to achieve a required self-control or a self-consciousness. In many religions chastity is imposed to the respective sacerdotal orders.
See also: Religious aspects of marriage, promiscuity, chastity belt, asexuality
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chastity."
Synonyms: UnchasteSynonyms: indelicate, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful. (additional references) |
| Antonym: chaste (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose. |
Libertine | Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unchaste |
| English words defined with "unchaste": Cutty ♦ Jadish ♦ Unchastity ♦ Whorish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unchaste": Bardesanists ♦ Sweet Singers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "unchaste": incest. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
John Donne | Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Unchaste" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unchaste" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unchaste | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unchaste"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jo i përkorë, epsharak (lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, lickerish). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاسق (bawdy, debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, punk, raffish, rakish, scab, scarlet, slippery, uninhibited, wanton). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нецеломъдрен (impure). (various references) | |
Czech | necudný (greasy, impure, lascivious, salacious). (various references) | |
Farsi | الوده دامن , بی عفت (Bawdy, Immodest, Light), بی عفاف . (various references) | |
Finnish | siveetön (immoral, obscene). (various references) | |
French | non chaste, lascif, impudique. (various references) | |
German | unkeusch (unclean, wanton). (various references) | |
Greek | μη αγνόσ, άσεμνοσ (immodest, immoral, indecent, indecorous, obscene, racy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemérmetlen (devoid of shame, dirty, indecent, nasty, obscene, ribald, shameless, unclean). (various references) | |
Italian | impudico (immodest, indecent, lewd). (various references) | |
Manx | neuyeeinymnee (incontinent), neuvoidynagh (immodest, immodest woman), neuoney, maarderagh (adulterous, immoral, lascivious, lecher, libertine, whoremonger), gimmanagh (debauched, salacious, smutty, wanton), awane (foul, immodest, obscene). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asteunchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | impuro (drossy, impure, muddy, obscene, salacious, unclean, uncound), desonesto (cambered, crooked, devious, dishonest, drossy, false, immodest, impure, knavish, light-fingered, low-down, nasty, shady, sharp, shifty, thievish, tortuous, unfair, unfaithful, untrustworthy). (various references) | |
Romanian | desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster). (various references) | |
Russian | нецеломудренный, непристойный (bawdy, beastly, coarse, dirty, disorderly, greasy, nasty, obscene, pawpaw, ribald, salacious, salty, scurrilous, smutty, uncomely, unseemly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poročan (graceless, unhallowed, vicious, wicked), bludan (promiscuous). (various references) | |
Spanish | impúdico. (various references) | |
Turkish | namussuz (dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, faithless, rascal, rascally, shady, tortuous, uncleanly), iffetsiz (impure, lewd). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нечистий (adulterant, dark, drossy, impure, unclean), нецнотливий, непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không trong trắng, không trinh bạch dâm dật, dâm ô (salacious, wanton). (various references) | |
Welsh | anniwair (incontinent, lewd). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inpudice, inpudici. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unchaste": unchastely, unchasteness, unchastenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Unchaste" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: munchister, uncate, unchoate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nautches. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: canthus, chasten, chaunts, nutcase, staunch, unteach. | |
-2 letters: acutes, ascent, cantus, centas, chants, chaste, chaunt, cheats, chutes, cuesta, cushat, enacts, encash, hances, hasten, haunts, hausen, naches, nautch, nuchae, sachet, scathe, secant, snatch, snathe, stance, stanch, stench, taches, thanes, tusche, uncase, unhats, unseat, usance. | |
-3 letters: aches, acnes, acute, antes, ashen, aunts, canes, canst, cants, caste. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ceanothus, chanteuse, chaunters, staunched, stauncher, staunches, unlatches, unscathed, unteaches. | |
+2 letters: acanthuses, chanteuses, euthanasic, headcounts, humectants, lunchmeats, nuthatches, paunchiest, raunchiest, staunchest, unchastely. | |
+3 letters: avouchments, catechumens, ceanothuses, staunchness, unaesthetic. | |
+4 letters: autochthones, enthusiastic, euchromatins, furtherances, hallucinates, neurasthenic, thunderclaps, transhumance, unchasteness, unchastities, unhysterical, untouchables, watchfulness. | |
+5 letters: accouchements, authenticates, chrysanthemum, cinematheques, multichannels, neurasthenics, staunchnesses, transhumances, unsympathetic, vouchsafement. | |
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