virginal

adjective

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vir·gin·al | \ ˈvər-jə-nᵊl

, ˈvərj-nəl \

Definition of virginal

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a virgin or virginity especially : pure, chaste a virginal young girl

2 : pristine, unsullied a virginal snowfall

virginal

noun

Definition of virginal (Entry 2 of 2)

: a small rectangular spinet having no legs and only one wire to a note and popular in the 16th and 17th centuries —often used in plural

— called also pair of virginals

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Other Words from virginal

Adjective

virginally adverb

Noun

virginalist \ ˈvər-jə-nᵊl-ist

, ˈvərj-nə-list \ noun

Synonyms & Antonyms for virginal

Synonyms: Adjective

Antonyms: Adjective

stale

Examples of virginal in a Sentence

Adjective The land is still in its virginal state. one of the state's few remaining tracts of virginal prairie

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Historically, clinicians have defended medical involvement as a means of protecting women against violence if their virginal status is in question. — Neda Taghinejadi, Wired, 13 Feb. 2022 Men are gang members, and women are either virginal or spitfires. — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021 And because the queen, who had endured omnipresent chaperonage by her mother, was presumed to be virginal, the color came to be considered symbolic of bodily purity. — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021 This became a clear trend and message over the course of a decade, fueled by pop culture stars: young women and girls needed to stay virginal to succeed. — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 8 Nov. 2021 Gus, one of the liberated enslaved, in the uniform of the Union Army, loiters outside the house of the virginal southern belle Flora and follows her to the woods. — Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020 That went double for the moon, whose virginal glow is nicely sanitizing in this context. — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021 From there one, the idea of pure evil and the most ubiquitous representation of good, a virginal babysitter, a young girl with dreams of romance and goodness in her heart. — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 28 Aug. 2021 The character, in Zegler’s view, shouldn’t be so virginal and pure and, well, flat and one-note. — Hunter Harris, Town & Country, 25 Aug. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Many of the clinics that provide hymenoplasty also offer virginity testing, an examination of the genitalia that claims to determine the virginal (or otherwise) status of a woman. — Neda Taghinejadi, Wired, 13 Feb. 2022 See More

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