Puristic

2 definitions found

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

  Puristic \Pu*ris"tic\, Puristical \Pu*ris"tic*al\, a.
     Of or pertaining to purists or purism.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "puristic":
     Sabbatarian, bigoted, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious,
     creedbound, critical, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic,
     dour, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, evangelical, exact,
     exacting, exquisite, fastidious, firm, formalistic, fundamentalist,
     goody good-good, goody-goody, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox,
     impliable, inexorable, inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad,
     ironhanded, literalist, literalistic, methodical, meticulous,
     mincing, muscle-bound, namby-pamby, obdurate, obstinate, orderly,
     orthodox, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, particular, pedantic,
     perfectionistic, picky, precieuse, precious, precise, precisian,
     precisianist, precisianistic, precisionist, precisionistic,
     priggish, procrustean, prudish, punctilious, purist, puritan,
     puritanic, puritanical, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic,
     rigorous, rockbound, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, simpering,
     staunch, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, strict, stubborn,
     unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding