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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Apostolic, Attic, Ciceronian, Encratic, Lenten, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abase, absolute, abstemious, abstinent, aesthetic, afflict, artistic, ascetic, austere, bare, basic, becoming, beyond all praise, blotless, castigate, celibate, chasten, chastise, choice, classic, classical, clean, cleanly, clear, common, commonplace, continent, correct, decent, decorous, defectless, direct, discipline, easy, elegant, elementary, essential, ethical, everyday, excellent, faultless, finished, flawless, fruitarian, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, good, graceful, gracile, guiltless, homely, homespun, homogeneous, household, humble, humiliate, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, in good taste, indefectible, indefective, indivisible, infallible, innocent, irreducible, irreproachable, just right, limpid, lucid, maidenly, matter-of-fact, mere, modest, monolithic, moral, natural, neat, nephalistic, nondescript, of a piece, of choice, of quality, on the wagon, ordinary, peerless, pellucid, perfect, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, primal, primary, proper, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple, pure in heart, purehearted, quiet, refined, restrained, righteous, round, seemly, severe, sexually abstinent, sexually innocent, simon-pure, simple, single, sinless, snowy, spare, spotless, stainless, stark, straightforward, subdued, sworn off, taintless, tasteful, teetotal, terse, trim, try, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unblemished, unblotted, uncluttered, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, undecorated, undefiled, understated, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unembellished, unfaultable, uniform, unlabored, unmixed, unobtrusive, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, vegetarian, virgin, virginal, virtuous, well-chosen, white, wholesome, workaday, workday

Dictionary Results for chaste:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

chaste
    adj 1: morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual
           intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste" [ant:
           unchaste]
    2: pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of
       conventionalized flowers"
    3: abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Chaste \Chaste\ (ch[=a]st), a. [F. chaste, from L. castus pure,
   chaste; cf. Gr. kaqaro`s pure, Skr. [,c]udh to purify.]
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   1. Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous;
      continent. "As chaste as Diana." --Shak.
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            Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and
      obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a
      chaste mind; chaste eyes.
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   3. Pure in design and expression; correct; free from
      barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste
      style in composition or art.
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            That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence,
            the Book of Common Prayer.            --Macaulay.
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   4. Unmarried. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   Syn: Undefiled; pure; virtuous; continent; immaculate;
        spotless.
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   Chaste tree. Same as Agnus castus.
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