Word Meanings - UNCHASTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not chaste; not continent; lewd. -- Un*chaste"ly, adv. -- Un*chaste"ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNCHASTE)

• Meretricious
• Tricksy
• unchaste
• gaudy
• impure
• tawdry
• flashy

Related words: (words related to UNCHASTE)

• MERETRICIOUS
  prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully
• IMPURE
  Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. (more info) 1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water
• FLASHY
  1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow. 2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous. A temper always flashy. Burke. 3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress. 4. Without
• UNCHASTE
  Not chaste; not continent; lewd. -- Un*chaste"ly, adv. -- Un*chaste"ness, n.
• GAUDYGREEN
  Light green. Chaucer. Spenser.
• GAUDY
  1. Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy. Shak. 2. Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.
• IMPURELY
  In an impure manner.
• TAWDRY
  corrupted from Saint Audrey, or Auldrey, meaning Saint Ethelreda, implying therefore, originally, bought at the fair of St. Audrey, where laces and gay toys of all sorts were sold. This fair was held in Isle Ely, and probably at other places, on
• TRICKSY
  Exhibiting artfulness; trickish. "My tricksy spirit!" Shak. he tricksy policy which in the seventeenth century passed for state wisdom. Coleridge.
• IMPURENESS
  The quality or condition of being impure; impurity. Milton.