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synonyms for celibate

  • chaste
  • continent
  • virgin
  • virginal
  • pure
  • virtuous

antonyms for celibate

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  • active
  • promiscuous
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How to use celibate in a sentence

Later, he told me that, because he could not change his sexuality, he planned to stay celibate for life.
THE RISE OF THE LIBERAL LATTER-DAY SAINTSEMILY KAPLANSEPTEMBER 27, 2021WASHINGTON POST
After a brief fling at age 40, he was celibate for the next 35 years.
PERSPECTIVE-CHANGING EXPERIENCES, GOOD OR BAD, CAN LEAD TO RICHER LIVESSUJATA GUPTASEPTEMBER 1, 2021SCIENCE NEWS
He was 35 at the time, a widely admired teacher and girls’ basketball coach who lived in a People of Praise home for celibate men.
‘PEOPLE OF PRAISE LEADERS FAILED ME’: CHRISTIAN GROUP TIED TO JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT FACES RECKONING OVER SEXUAL MISCONDUCTBETH REINHARD, ALICE CRITESJUNE 11, 2021WASHINGTON POST
We can address these problems without all becoming celibate.
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH CAPITALISM? NOT ENOUGH CAPITALISTSJAKEMETHNOVEMBER 21, 2020FORTUNE
I used to believe that there was benefit to health and increase of power, whether physical or mental, in the celibate life.
THE BOOK OF LIFE: VOL. I MIND AND BODY; VOL. II LOVE AND SOCIETYUPTON SINCLAIR
This glimmer of wonder and envy, the revelation of a life intensely celibate, was for an instant infinitely touching.
THE TRAGIC MUSEHENRY JAMES
And besides they tend to the extinction of the human species by reason of their monastic and celibate ideal.
A HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHYISAAC HUSIK
It goes without saying that this remarkable man was a High Churchman and a celibate.
WITCHING HILLE. W. HORNUNG
"It would bring a little colour into one's life," said Eric, looking with disfavour at the grimly celibate sitting-room.
LADY LILITHSTEPHEN MCKENNA
He afterward took the first steamer for Peru, where he entered a monastery and became a celibate.
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WORDS RELATED TO CELIBATE

  • available
  • celibate
  • single
  • single person
  • stag
  • unattached
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