Prudish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prudish \Prud"ish\, a.
     Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly
     severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face. --Garrick.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prudish
       adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
             approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim}, {prissy},
              {puritanical}, {square-toed}, {straitlaced}, {strait-laced},
              {straightlaced}, {straight-laced}, {tight-laced}, {victorian}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "prudish":
     Quakerish, Victorian, austere, censorious, choicy, choosy,
     conscientious, critical, decorous, demure, discriminating,
     discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formal, fussy, genteel,
     hidebound, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, old-maidish,
     overmodest, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise,
     precisianistic, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, punctilious,
     puristic, puritanic, puritanical, rigid, sanctimonious, scrupulous,
     selective, sensitive, severe, smug, squeamish, stern, stiff,
     stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stuffy