| Main Entry: |
prudish |
| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
shy and strict in behavior |
Synonyms: |
Victorian,
affected,
artificial,
austere, bigoted,
conventional,
demure,
fastidious,
finicky*,
genteel, illiberal, mincing,
narrow, narrow-minded, offish, overexact, overmodest, overnice,
precise,
pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy,
proper, puritanical,
rigid,
rigorous,
scrupulous,
severe, simpering,
square, squeamish, starchy,
stern,
stiff*, stilted, straitlaced, stuffy,
uptight*
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| Notes: |
prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct or dress |
Antonyms: |
bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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