virginal
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- adjective
- /ˈvɜrdʒɪnəl/
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- Katerina's strong religious beliefs helped her remain virginal until marriage.
- virginal conception
- virginal daughter
- virginal girl
Examples
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The fact that the dress is a virginal, bridal white underscores the indecent nature of his request.
Academic text (2007) -
Like all classic fairytale heroines, Sandy is gendered as passive, young, fragile, innocent, and, of course, virginal.
Academic text (2016) -
In front of teenagers and their virginal ears, no less!
Blog text (29) -
What does it mean when his dom fantasy is a young, virginal girl?
Blog text (10) -
Did I offend your virginal sensibilities?
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But here you are, still a virgin—you are virginal yet, aren't you?
Fiction book (1993) -
Mother sank back, looking from her to Marian, who wore an expression of virginal innocence, as if to say that Edmund was an earthly issue.
Fiction book (1999) -
"As Delia walked through the dining room to the hall, she felt drab and thin and virginal, like somebody's spinster aunt fulfilling her duties.
Fiction book (1995) -
Dressed in a white skirt that billowed with each upswing, a thick scarlet belt around her waist, she was virginal, sun-stained, her white hair flopping over her eyes.
Fiction book (1998) -
Floral trappings also appear in seventeenth-century funerary portraits of Spanish nuns to emphasize their virginal triumph through life's many temptations and difficulties.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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A woman who has not had sex
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Not having had sex
A woman who has not had sex
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A thin fold of skin that partly covers the entrance to the vagina and is present at birth
How Sexually Experienced
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Virginal comes from the Latin root virgo meaning 'maiden' and the English word virgin, so it describes someone 'not having had sex'.