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Puritanical

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Adjective

1. puritanical

of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism

2. priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian

exaggeratedly proper

Example Sentences:
'my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts'

3. blue, puritanic, puritanical

morally rigorous and strict

Example Sentences:
'the puritan work ethic'
'puritanic distaste for alcohol'
'she was anything but puritanical in her behavior'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Puritanical

see synonyms of puritanical
adjective
1. usually derogatory
strict in moral or religious outlook, esp in shunning sensual pleasures
2. (sometimes capital)
of or relating to a puritan or the Puritans

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Puritanical

see synonyms of puritanical
adjective
1.  [P-]
of the Puritans or Puritanism
2. 
extremely or excessively strict in matters of morals and religion

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Puritanical

see synonyms of puritanical
adj.
1. Rigorous in religious observance; marked by stern morality.
2. Puritanical Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Puritans.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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