virginal

/ˈvəːdʒɪn(ə)l/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈvəːdʒɪn(ə)l/

virginal

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

vir - gi - nal -> virginal

Myanmar meaning

အပျိုစင် ( ကညာစင် ) နှင့် သက်ဆိုင်သော၊ သင့်လျော်သော။ သေတ္တာတွင် ထည့်ထားသည့် ခြေထောက်မပါသော စန္ဒယားငယ်။

Full entry

virginal /'vɜ:dʒÇnl/ adj

အပျိုစင်နှင့်လိုက်ဖက်သော။
dressed in virginal white.

More examples

‘No need to shield your virginal eyes, the nude figures have been laboriously obscured.’
‘Both Diana and Jemima married at a young, impressionable age to men who decided their brides ‘fitted the bill’ as virginal sweet young things.’
‘Her risqué performance during the Onyx Hotel tour proved once and for all that she has successfully made the transition from virginal adolescence to libidinous adulthood, to the consternation of some and joy of others.’
‘She was waiting for him in a bed of an obscenely virginal white lace and satin.’
‘In Chaplin's film it is love at first sight and the tramp will do anything he can to help the blind heroine. They both have the innocence of schoolchildren, and theirs is the virginal dream of love, not the reality.’
‘I read a large amount of news online, but I still practice an almost ritualistic reading of the physical paper; so much so that I get antsy when some else reads my virginal paper before I get to it.’
‘As for me, spinsters have no need for virginal innocence.’
‘Working in a largely male-dominated office, the arrival of any new female face, let alone a young, innocent and possibly virginal one, is greeted with much excitement.’
‘In fact when we first meet her she seems quite virginal.’
‘The studio hushed it up to preserve her virginal image.’
‘Let's go back to the, like, virginal innocence thing, because that can be cool too.’
‘The virginal mind is innocent in the positive sense.’
‘The third virtue central to the sangang doctrine is jie or chastity (preserving the marital fidelity of the wife or the virginal purity of an unmarried woman).’
‘He peels the spuds, digs the garden and with a virginal innocence shifts his affections from the daughter to the mother; yet he is also quietly scathing about the journeyman daubs of his fellow lodger.’
‘Ornamental umbels are represented by the delicately virginal Queen Anne's lace, which can grow to monstrous proportions if supported among other plants in the flower border and makes a surprisingly good cut flower.’
‘Hospitals may have a certain erotic frisson, but romance novelists just love an exotic location, preferably some desert land ruled by a dusky tyrant who can give the virginal heroine a rough ride on his camel.’
‘Reader's warning: this article uses unsavory language and is not recommended for virginal ears.’
‘On this occasion relays of patriotic maidens in virginal white paraded reverently before a temple of philosophy erected where the high altar had stood.’
‘White pups on white snow are seen as symbols of virginal nature, threatened by a hunter with upraised club.’
‘Dressed in virginal white, eight young girls executed endless parans and moved fluidly across the stage in a piece titled Nritta, or pure dance.’

Antonyms

bad, cluttered, complex, complicated, corrupt, evil, imprecise, impure, intricate, sinful, stained, unchaste, unvirtuous

Study this word

Build sentence

Pattern match

Parts of speechReview how this word works in a sentence.S + V + OPractice using the word in a basic sentence.Verb tense formsTry present, past, future, negative, and question forms.Be + adjectivePractice describing a noun with this word.

Mini quizWhat is the Myanmar meaning of “virginal”?

Try to say the meaning first, then reveal the answer.