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puritan

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Main Entry: puritan
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: puritanical

Synonyms:

proper, strict
Main Entry: bigot
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intolerant, prejudiced person

Synonyms:

chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, dogmatist, enthusiast, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac, monomaniac, opinionated person, partisan, persecutor, puritan, racist, sectarian, segregationist, sexist, stickler, superpatriot, zealot

Antonyms:

humanitarian, liberal, tolerator
Main Entry: colonial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory

Synonyms:

crude, dependent, dominion, early American, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, outland, pilgrim, pioneer, prerevolutionary, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, transplanted, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild

Antonyms:

modern, new
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: prude
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: prig

Synonyms:

Mrs. Grundy, Victorian, goody two-shoes, goody-goody, old maid, puritan
Main Entry: prig
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: prude

Synonyms:

fussbudget, puritan, snob
Main Entry: goody two-shoes
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: somebody smug and well-behaved

Synonyms:

Puritan, Victorian, goody-goody, prig, prissy, prude, prudish, straight-laced, upright
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