| 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: | bourgeois |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, Victorian, common, conservative, conventional, hidebound, illiberal, materialistic, middle-class, old-line, traditional |
Antonyms: |
adventurous, imaginative, inspired, nonconforming, original, untraditional |
| 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: | 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: | 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* |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | quaint |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned; nostalgically attractive |
Synonyms: |
Gothic, Victorian, affected, ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, artful, baroque, captivating, charming, colonial, curious, cute, enchanting, fanciful, ingenious, old-world, picturesque, pleasing, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
current, new, new-fangled, up-to-date |
| 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: | stuffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned, prim |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, arrogant, bloated, conventional, dreary, dull, fusty, genteel, humorless, important, magisterial, musty, narrow-minded, pompous, priggish, prim and proper, prissy, prudish, puffy, puritanical, self-important, staid, stilted, stodgy, straitlaced, uninteresting |
Antonyms: |
current, informal, modern, new |