'Puritanical' definitions:
Definition of 'puritanical'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
adjective
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, victorian]
adjective
Morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" [syn: blue(a), puritanic, puritanical]
Definition of 'Puritanical'
From: GCIDE
- Puritanic \Pu`ri*tan"ic\, Puritanical \Pu`ri*tan"ic*al\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt. [1913 Webster]
- Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'puritanical'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstinent,
- Albigensian,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bigoted,
- Catharist,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- conscientious,
- creedbound,
- critical,
- demure,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- eremitic,
- evangelical,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- firm,
- flagellant,
- Franciscan,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- mendicant,
- meticulous,
- mid-Victorian,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old-maidish,
- orthodox,
- overmodest,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precise,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prim,
- procrustean,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- Quakerish,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- Sabbatarian,
- sanctimonious,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- self-denying,
- sensitive,
- smug,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- Trappist,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- Victorian,
- Waldensian,
- wedded to poverty