straitlaced as an adjective: - 1
straitlaced
adjective
1 straitlaced
Exaggeratedly proper:
— My straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts.
synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, tight-laced, victorian ... show more.
Roget 868:
fastidious,
nice,
delicate,
delicat†,
finical,
finicky,
demanding,
meticulous,
exacting,
strict,
anal [Vulg.],
difficult,
dainty,
lickerish†,
squeamish,
thin-skinned;
squeasy†,
queasy;
hard to please,
difficult to please;
querulous,
particular,
straitlaced,
scrupulous;
censorious
etc.
932;
hypercritical;
overcritical.
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Polish: pruderyjny
Moby thesaurus: Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Victorian, authoritarian, bigot, bigoted, borne, censorious, closed, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, demure, dogmatic, dour, evangelical, fanatical, firm, fundamentalist, genteel, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox, illiberal, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, insular, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, libertine, literalist, literalistic, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, parochial, petty, precisianist, precisianistic, prig, priggish, prim, prissy, procrustean, provincial, prudish, purblind, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, shortsighted, small, small-minded, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked, straightlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncatholic, uncharitable, uncompromising, ungenerous, unliberal, unrelenting, unyielding ... show more.
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