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puritanical
adjective
(pu-ri-tan-i-cal)
morally rigorous and strict
Synonyms:
blue
,
puritanic
,
Examples:
She was anything but puritanical in her behavior.
puritanical
adjective
(pu-ri-tan-i-cal)
exaggeratedly proper
Synonyms:
priggish
,
prim
,
prissy
,
prudish
, square-toed, straight-laced,
straightlaced
, strait-laced,
straitlaced
, tight-laced,
victorian
,
puritanical
(pu-ri-tan-i-cal)
of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
Words Related to
puritanical
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puritan
,
prudish
,
priggish
,
straitlaced
,
prissy
,
straightlaced
,
prim
,
victorian
,
proper
,
blue
,
nonindulgent
,
puritanic
,
square-toed
,
tight-laced
,
moralistic
,
censorious
,
fundamentalist
,
doctrinaire
,
dogmatic
,
illiberal
,
patriarchal
,
uptight
,
calvinistic
,
paternalistic
,
reactionary
,
chauvinistic
,
intolerant
,
sanctimonious
,
theocratic
,
obscurantist
,
pietistic
,
conformist
,
hidebound
,
misogynistic
,
strict
,
pious
,
absolutist
,
austere
,
hedonistic
,
rebellious
,
snobbish
,
fascistic
,
traditionalist
,
tyrannical
,
permissive
,
rigid
,
judgmental
,
secular
,
aristocratic
,
licentious
,
misogynous
,
antifeminist
,
irreligious
,
liberalist
,
decadent
,
godless
,
religionist
,
egalitarian
,
promiscuous
,
antinomian
,
postfeminist
,
individualist
,
sinful
,
consumerist
,
debauched
,
enlightened
,
humorless
,
atheistic
,
anachronistic
,
materialistic
,
antediluvian
,
censorial
,
anticlerical
,
chaste
,
atavistic
,
secularized
,
bourgeois
,
unreligious
,
unladylike
,
genteel
,
schoolmarmish
,
perverted
,
liberal
,
pacifistic
,
amoral
,
racialist
,
brusk
,
deviant
,
sheeplike
,
secularised
,
manichaean
,
nihilistic
,
leisured
,
dirigiste
,
anomic
,
proscriptive
,
unreconstructed
,
effete
,
bohemian
,
radical
,
puritanical
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