'Celibate' definitions:
Definition of 'celibate'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests" [syn: celibate, continent]
noun
An unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity
Definition of 'Celibate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Celibate'
From: GCIDE
- Celibate \Cel"i*bate\, a. Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'celibate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- absolute,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- acarpous,
- alone,
- Apostolic,
- arid,
- ascetic,
- azygous,
- bachelor,
- barren,
- beadsman,
- brother,
- caloyer,
- celibataire,
- cenobite,
- chaste,
- childless,
- continent,
- conventual,
- conventual prior,
- desert,
- desolate,
- drained,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- Encratic,
- 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,
- Lenten,
- 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,
- Platonic,
- priest,
- prior,
- pure,
- Pythagorean,
- Rechabite,
- religieux,
- religious,
- sexually abstinent,
- Shaker,
- sine prole,
- single,
- singular,
- sole,
- Spartan,
- spinster,
- sterile,
- Stoic,
- 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