puritanical

puritanical
    adj 1: of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
    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: 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}]
    

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.
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   2. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements;
      strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of
      reproach or contempt.
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            Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels
            were strictly excluded.               --Macaulay.
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            He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil.
                                                  --Hawthorne.
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93 Moby Thesaurus words for "puritanical":
      Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Quakerish, Sabbatarian,
      Trappist, Victorian, Waldensian, abstinent, anchoritic, ascetic,
      austere, bigoted, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious,
      creedbound, critical, demure, discriminating, discriminative,
      dogmatic, dour, eremitic, evangelical, exacting, fastidious, firm,
      flagellant, 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, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous,
      rockbound, sanctimonious, scrupulous, selective, self-denying,
      sensitive, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked, straightlaced,
      straitlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncompromising,
      unrelenting, unyielding, wedded to poverty