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strait-laced
[streyt-leyst]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prudish |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, old-maidish, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, puritanical, rigid, square, starchy, stiff*, strict, stuffy, uptight* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | narrow-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | biased, intolerant |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, conservative, conventional, hidebound, illiberal, insular, narrow, opinionated, parochial, petty, prejudiced, provincial, reactionary, short-sighted, small-minded, strait-laced, unenlarged |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, liberal, tolerant, unbiased |
| Main Entry: | prim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular, fussy |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, blue-nose, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, correct, dapper*, decorous, demure, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody-goody, nice, nit-picking, orderly, overmodest, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape, spic-and-span, spruce, stickling, stiff, straight, strait-laced, stuffy, tidy, uncluttered, upright, well-groomed, wooden |
| Antonyms: | informal, rumpled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prissy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular and fussy |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, epicene, fastidious, finicky, genteel, goody-goody, goody-two-shoes, overnice, pansified, persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prim and proper, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, squeamish, stickling, strait-laced, stuffy, tight-laced |
| Antonyms: | informal, unconcerned |
| Main Entry: | proper |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mannerly, decent |
| Synonyms: | becoming, befitting, by the book, by the numbers, comely, comme il faut, conforming, correct, de rigueur, decorous, demure, genteel, in line, kosher*, moral, nice, polite, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, refined, respectable, right, seemly, solid, square*, stone, straight*, strait-laced, stuffy |
| Antonyms: | crass, crude, misbehaving, objectionable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rigid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stiff, strict, severe |
| Synonyms: | adamant, adamantine, austere, bullheaded, changeless, chiseled, dead set, definite, determined, exact, firm, fixed, hard, hard-line, harsh, incompliant, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, invariable, locked in, obdurate, rigorous, set, set in stone, single-minded, solid, static, stern, strait-laced, stringent, tough nut to crack, unalterable, unbending, unbreakable, unchanging, uncompromising, undeviating, unmoving, unpermissive, unrelenting, unyielding |
| Antonyms: | bending, flexible, lenient, limber, pliable, pliant, soft, yielding |
| Main Entry: | severe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncompromising, stern |
| Synonyms: | astringent, austere, biting, caustic, close, cold, cruel, cutting, disapproving, dour, earnest, firm, flinty, forbidding, grave, grim, hard, hard-nosed, harsh, inconsiderate, inexorable, inflexible, iron-handed, obdurate, oppressive, peremptory, pitiless, relentless, resolute, resolved, rigid, satirical, scathing, serious, sober, stern, stiff*, strait-laced, strict, tight-lipped, unalterable, unbending, unchanging, unfeeling, unrelenting, unsmiling, unsparing |
| Antonyms: | amenable, compromising, easy-going, friendly, willing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | square |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned, conventional |
| Synonyms: | behind the times, bourgeois, button-down, conservative, dated, orthodox, out-of-date, straight*, strait-laced, stuffy |
| Antonyms: | current, in vogue, new, popular, stylish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | squeamish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nauseated; finicky |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, captious, delicate, disgusted, dizzy, exacting, fastidious, fussy, hypercritical, mincing, particular, prim, prudish, puritanical, qualmish, queasy, queer, scrupulous, shaky, sick, sick to one's stomach, sickly, strait-laced, unsettled, upset, vertiginous |
| Antonyms: | ready, unpicky, willing |
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