celibate

Speech parts

1. celibate - Noun

2. celibate - Adjective

3. celibate - Verb

4. celibate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Celibate state; celibacy.

One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.

Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

single pure continent chaste unmarried abstinent virgin bachelor franciscan lenten immaculate vestal bach bachelorette religious
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Antonyms

randy playboy cougar group active blue
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Hypernyms

religious person

Phrases with the word

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Anagrams

cabletie citeable

Examples

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan

Most artists go potty as they get older: dafter and madder as they get more celibate. So I am consciously going to do that. Peter Blake

Mitochondrial DNA is blessedly celibate. (p.53) Richard Dawkins

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. Rajneesh

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am. Paris Hilton

Rossini was gentle with her. "In one way or another, we all have to cope with the essential solitude of being human, whether we're celibate or married." "If you're a good person, doesn't God fill your loneliness?" "He fills it, I think, with a divine discontent." Morris West

Close letter words and terms

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