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Puritanical

//pjɚ.ɪˈtæn.ɪ.kl̩//

Synonyms for "puritanical" (114 found)

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Informal (10)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, name, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(3 words)

stuffy stubborn picky

Adj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Noun, verb, slang(1 words)

General use (104)

Adjective(13 words)

blue prissy victorian prim straitlaced priggish prudish puritanic straightlaced strait-laced square-toed straight-laced tight-laced

Adj, noun, verb(3 words)

narrow staunch unbending

Adjective(51 words)

obstinate rigorous modest unyielding relentless strict inflexible austere meticulous scrupulous unrelenting fastidious genteel inexorable bigoted hidebound conscientious straitlaced censorious priggish

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Adj, noun(22 words)

particular critical sensitive rigid ascetic dogmatic orthodox dour puritan victorian mendicant evangelical ironclad purist franciscan sabbatarian abstinent Albigensian rigorist Waldensian

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trappist flagellant

Adj, verb(6 words)

precise exacting obdurate temperate demure discriminating

Adj, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Noun(3 words)

fundamentalist precisianist literalist

mid Victorian stiff necked creedbound mid-Victorian wedded to poverty

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