Victorian

4 definitions found

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

  nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
     1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time.
        Opposite of {modern}. [Narrower terms: {antebellum};
        {fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal),
        stodgy old-fashioned}; {medieval, mediaeval, gothic};
        {old-time, quaint}; {unmodernized}; {victorian};


        {old-fashioned, outmoded}; {old-world}] Also See: {old},
        {past}.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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

  Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a.
     Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England;
     as, the Victorian poets.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Victorian period}. See {Dionysian period}, under
        {Dyonysian}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Victorian
       adj 1: of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the
              age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
       2: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
          approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim}, {prissy},
           {prudish}, {puritanical}, {square-toed}, {straitlaced}, {strait-laced},
           {straightlaced}, {straight-laced}, {tight-laced}]
       3: typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of
          Queen Victoria
       n : a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

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

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "Victorian":
     Gothic, Quakerish, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic,
     bluenose, censorious, classical, demure, fossil, fossilized,
     genteel, goody-goody, grown old, hidebound, medieval,
     mid-Victorian, narrow, of other times, old maid, old-fashioned,
     old-maidish, old-world, overmodest, petrified, prig, priggish,
     prim, prissy, prude, prudish, puritan, puritanical, sanctimonious,
     smug, starchy, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, superannuated