| Main Entry: | starchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | formal, stiff |
Synonyms: |
ceremonious, conventional, inflexible, mannered, prim, reserved, rigid, starched, stilted, strait-laced, strict, stuffy |
| Main Entry: | ceremonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ritual, formal |
Synonyms: |
civil, courteous, courtly, decorous, deferential, dignified, exact, grandiose, impressive, majestic, moving, precise, proper, punctilious, seemly, solemn, starchy, stately, stiff, striking |
| Notes: | ceremonial is more often applied to things (clothing, etc.) and ceremonious is used for persons and things (occasion, venue) |
Antonyms: |
informal, relaxed, unceremonious, unobserved |
| Main Entry: | pasty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sticky |
Synonyms: |
adhesive, doughy, gelatinous, gluelike, gluey, glutinous, gooey, mucilaginous, starchy |
Antonyms: |
smooth, unsticky |
| 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* |
Antonyms: |
bold, brave, extroverted, outgoing |
| Main Entry: | staid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restrained, set |
Synonyms: |
calm, cold sober, collected, composed, cool, decorous, demure, dignified, earnest, formal, grave, no-nonsense, quiet, sedate, self-restrained, serious, settled, sober, solemn, somber, starchy, steady, stuffy, weighty |
Antonyms: |
adventurous, frivolous, fun, sporting, willing |
| Main Entry: | stiff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, inflexible |
Synonyms: |
annealed, arthritic, benumbed, brittle, buckram, cemented, chilled, congealed, contracted, creaky, firm, fixed, frozen, graceless, hardened, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, indurate, inelastic, jelled, mechanical, numbed, ossified, petrified, refractory, resistant, rheumatic, rigid, set, solid, solidified, starched, starchy, stark, steely, stiff as a board, stony, taut, tense, thick, thickened, tight, unbending, unflexible, ungraceful, unsupple, unyielding, wooden |
Antonyms: |
flexible, pliable, pliant, soft |
| Main Entry: | stiff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | formal, standoffish |
Synonyms: |
angular, artificial, austere, ceremonious, cold, constrained, forced, hardheaded, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, labored, mannered, obstinate, pertinacious, pompous, priggish, prim, punctilious, relentless, starchy, stilted, strong, stubborn, uneasy, ungainly, ungraceful, unnatural, unrelaxed, unrelenting, wooden |
Antonyms: |
casual, graceful, informal |
| Main Entry: | strait-laced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prudish |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, old-maidish, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, puritanical, rigid, square, starchy, stiff*, strict, stuffy, uptight* |
| Main Entry: | Victorian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prudish |
Synonyms: |
conservative, conventional, demure, genteel, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, puritanical, respectable, rigid, smug, square, starchy, stiff*, straitlaced, stuffy, uptight* |
| Main Entry: | farinaceous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | granular |
Synonyms: |
gritty, mealy, starchlike, starchy |