'straightlaced' definitions:
Definition of 'straightlaced'
From: WordNet
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]
Synonyms of 'straightlaced'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- dour,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- hard,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- stiff,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding