celibate
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
celibate
adj 1: abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests"
[syn: {celibate}, {continent}]
n 1: an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of
chastity
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Celibate \Cel"i*bate\, n. [L. aelibatus, fr. caelebs unmarried,
single.]
1. Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate
of marriage. --Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
2. One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by
vows not to marry.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "celibate":
Apostolic, Encratic, Lenten, Platonic, Pythagorean, Rechabite,
Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abbacomes, abbot, absolute, abstemious,
abstinent, acarpous, alone, arid, ascetic, azygous, bachelor,
barren, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire, cenobite, chaste,
childless, continent, conventual, conventual prior, desert,
desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow,
first and last, friar, fruitarian, fruitless, gaunt, gelded,
grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, immaculate, impair, impotent,
ineffectual, infecund, infertile, intact, issueless, jejune,
lay abbot, lay brother, leached, lone, maidenly, mendicant,
menopausal, misogamic, misogamist, misogynist, misogynous,
monachal, monastic, monk, monkish, nephalistic, nonfertile,
nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nun, odd, on the wagon,
one and only, only, only-begotten, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint,
pillarist, priest, prior, pure, religieux, religious,
sexually abstinent, sine prole, single, singular, sole, spinster,
sterile, stylite, sucked dry, sworn off, teemless, teetotal,
uncultivated, undefiled, unfertile, unfruitful, unique, unmarried,
unpaired, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unrepeated, unsown,
unsullied, untilled, unwed, vegetarian, vestal, virgin, virginal,
virtuous, waste, wasted, without issue
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