Moralistic

Synonyms for "moralistic" (74 found)

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Closest matches (15)

admonitory advisory axiological cautionary consultative consultatory didactic directive ethical

Adjective(3 words)

audenesque doctrinaire ethical

Noun(3 words)

canting confucian crusading

Strong matches (22)

Adjective(6 words)

ethical revulsionfabled holier indignantmoral judgmentmoral stance

ethological exhortative exhortatory expostulative expostulatory hortative hortatory hypocritical instructive monitorial monitory moral

Noun(4 words)

ethrilmoral sentimentmoral sentimentalismmoral worldliness

Related words (37)

Verb(1 words)

moralized

Adjective(16 words)

moralizing normative preachiest priggish prissiest prissy prudish puritanic puritanicalreligious conceptsanctimonious selfrighteousstoic ethicsuncompromising uptight wilsonian

noble preachy principled proverbial puritan recommendatory remonstrant remonstrative remonstratory right-minded righteous sententious virtuous warning

Noun(6 words)

normative jurisprudencepuritanspiritual lifestorybook straightedge vegetarian

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6 relation types

More general

2 entries

ethical discoursemoral adjective

More specific

5 entries

ethical advocacymoral pedagogypreachy priggish sanctimonious

Collocations

5 entries

moralistic lecturemoralistic rhetoricmoralistic stancemoralistic tonemoralistic views

Inflections

2 entries

more moralisticmost moralistic

Derivations

3 entries

moralism moralist morally

similar

1 entries

moral

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

She was glad to escape her judgmental and moralistic parents.

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