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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
   1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time.
      Opposite of {modern}. [Narrower terms: {antebellum};
      {fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal),
      stodgy old-fashioned}; {medieval, mediaeval, gothic};
      {old-time, quaint}; {unmodernized}; {victorian};
      {old-fashioned, outmoded}; {old-world}] Also See: {old},
      {past}.
      [WordNet 1.5]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a.
   Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England;
   as, the Victorian poets.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Victorian period}. See {Dionysian period}, under
      {Dyonysian}.
      [1913 Webster]
    
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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