victorian
Noun · AdjectiveSynonyms:
Victorianpriggishprimprissyprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-laced
WordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- a person who lived during the reign of VictoriaSynonyms: Victorian
Adjective (3)
- of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled“Victorian morals”Synonyms: Victorian
- exaggeratedly proper“my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts”Synonyms: priggishprimprissyprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-laced
- typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen VictoriaSynonyms: Victorian
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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]
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]