Straight-laced

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "straightlaced":
     dour, firm, fundamentalist, hard, hidebound, impliable, inexorable,
     inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, muscle-bound,
     obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, procrustean, purist, puristic,
     puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic,
     rigorous, rockbound, stiff, straitlaced, stubborn, unbending,
     uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding