| Main Entry: | devout |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sincerely believing; devoted |
Synonyms: |
adherent, adoring, ardent, deep, earnest, faithful, fervent, fervid, genuine, godly, goody two-shoes, goody-goody, heart-and-soul, heartfelt, holy, intense, orthodox, passionate, pietistic, pious, prayerful, profound, religious, reverent, revering, serious, sincere, venerating, worshiping, zealous |
Antonyms: |
insincere, irreligious, unbelieving |
| Main Entry: | God-fearing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | religious |
Synonyms: |
churchgoing, dedicated, devoted, devout, ecclesiastical, faithful, godly, goody-goody, holy, orthodox, pious, prayerful, reverent, righteous, sacred, spiritual, theological |
| Main Entry: | goody-goody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | straight-laced |
Synonyms: |
God-fearing, PC, Puritan, Victorian, goody two-shoes, holier-than-thou, moral, nice, pious, politically correct, priggish, prissy, prudish, self-righteous, unctuous, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | holier-than-thou |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-righteously pious |
Synonyms: |
artificial, goody-goody, high-hat, judgmental, pietistic, sanctimonious, simon-pure, smug, snobbish, unctuous |
| Main Entry: | pious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dedicated, religious |
Synonyms: |
born-again, clerical, devoted, devout, divine, ecclesiastical, godly, goody-goody, orthodox, prayerful, priestly, reverent, righteous, sacred, saintly, sanctimonious, spiritual |
Antonyms: |
atheist, impious, irreligious, sinful, wicked |
| Main Entry: | prim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular, fussy |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, blue-nose, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, correct, dapper*, decorous, demure, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody-goody, nice, nit-picking, orderly, overmodest, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape, spic-and-span, spruce, stickling, stiff, straight, strait-laced, stuffy, tidy, uncluttered, upright, well-groomed, wooden |
Antonyms: |
informal, rumpled |
| Main Entry: | prissy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular and fussy |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, epicene, fastidious, finicky, genteel, goody-goody, goody-two-shoes, overnice, pansified, persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prim and proper, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, squeamish, stickling, strait-laced, stuffy, tight-laced |
Antonyms: |
informal, unconcerned |
| Main Entry: | prude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prig |
Synonyms: |
Mrs. Grundy, Victorian, goody two-shoes, goody-goody, old maid, puritan |
| Main Entry: | sanctimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-righteous |
Synonyms: |
Pecksniffian, bigoted, canting, deceiving, false, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, insincere, pharisaical, pietistic, pious, preachy, self-satisfied, smug, stuffy, unctuous |
Antonyms: |
humble, meek, modest |
| Main Entry: | self-righteous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smug |
Synonyms: |
affected, canting, complacent, egotistical, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, noble, pharisaic, pietistic, pious, preachy, sanctimonious, self-satisfied, superior |
Antonyms: |
caring, humble, thoughtful, understanding |