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| Main Entry: |
puritan
 [pyoor-i-tn] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | puritanical |
| Synonyms: | proper, strict |
| Main Entry: | colonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory |
| Synonyms: | crude, dependent, dominion, early American, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, outland, pilgrim, pioneer, prerevolutionary, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, transplanted, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild |
| Antonyms: | modern, new |
| Main Entry: | goody-goody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | straight-laced |
| Synonyms: | God-fearing, PC, Puritan, Victorian, goody two-shoes, holier-than-thou, moral, nice, pious, politically correct, priggish, prissy, prudish, self-righteous, unctuous, virtuous |
Example Sentences
- Mencken said that a puritan is someone deathly afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun.
- It was what brought the world the puritan work ethic.
- Puritan society should not absolutely condemn such relationships between consenting adults, student, employee or whatever.
| Main Entry: | prude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prig |
| Synonyms: | Mrs. Grundy, Victorian, goody two-shoes, goody-goody, old maid, puritan |
| Main Entry: | goody two-shoes |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | somebody smug and well-behaved |
| Synonyms: | Puritan, Victorian, goody-goody, prig, prissy, prude, prudish, straight-laced, upright |
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