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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. exaggeratedly proper;
- Example: "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
[syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prudish \Prud"ish\, a. Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners. [1913 Webster] A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face. --Garrick. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prudish adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "prudish": Quakerish, Victorian, austere, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, critical, decorous, demure, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formal, fussy, genteel, hidebound, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, old-maidish, overmodest, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, rigid, sanctimonious, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, severe, smug, squeamish, stern, stiff, stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stuffy