Victorian
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Victorian
adj 1: of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to
the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
2: 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}]
3: typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen
Victoria
n 1: a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "Victorian":
Gothic, Quakerish, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic,
bluenose, censorious, classical, demure, fossil, fossilized,
genteel, goody-goody, grown old, hidebound, medieval,
mid-Victorian, narrow, of other times, old maid, old-fashioned,
old-maidish, old-world, overmodest, petrified, prig, priggish,
prim, prissy, prude, prudish, puritan, puritanical, sanctimonious,
smug, starchy, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, superannuated
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