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[syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
3. typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time.
Opposite of modern. [Narrower terms: antebellum;
fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal),
stodgy old-fashioned; medieval, mediaeval, gothic;
old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian;
old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world] Also See: old,
past.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England;
as, the Victorian poets.
[1913 Webster]
Victorian period. See Dionysian period, under
Dyonysian.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Victorian
adj 1: of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to
the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
2: 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]
3: typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen
Victoria
n 1: a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "Victorian":
Gothic, Quakerish, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic,
bluenose, censorious, classical, demure, fossil, fossilized,
genteel, goody-goody, grown old, hidebound, medieval,
mid-Victorian, narrow, of other times, old maid, old-fashioned,
old-maidish, old-world, overmodest, petrified, prig, priggish,
prim, prissy, prude, prudish, puritan, puritanical, sanctimonious,
smug, starchy, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, superannuated