Antonyms of adj chaste

3 senses of chaste

Sense 1
chaste (vs. unchaste) -- (morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste")

unchaste (vs. chaste) -- (not chaste; "unchaste conduct")
        => cyprian -- (resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus)
        => easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton -- (casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior")
        => fallen -- (having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman")
        => licentious -- (lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained; "coarse and licentious men")

Sense 2
chaste -- (pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers")

INDIRECT (VIA plain) -> fancy -- (not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes")

Sense 3
chaste -- (abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse)

INDIRECT (VIA moral) -> immoral -- (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)

Similarity of adj chaste

3 senses of chaste

Sense 1
chaste (vs. unchaste) -- (morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste")
       => celibate, continent -- (abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests")
       => pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous -- (in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal")
          Also See-> moral#1; pure#6; virtuous#1

Sense 2
chaste -- (pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers")
       => plain (vs. fancy) -- (not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building")

Sense 3
chaste -- (abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse)
       => moral (vs. immoral) -- (concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles; "moral sense"; "a moral scrutiny"; "a moral lesson"; "a moral quandary"; "moral convictions"; "a moral life")

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