straitlaced

strait·laced

adjective \ˈstrāt-ˈlāst\

Definition of STRAITLACED

1

: excessively strict in manners, morals, or opinion

2

: wearing or having a bodice or stays tightly laced

— strait·laced·ly \-ˈlā-səd-lē, -ˈlāst-lē\ adverb

— strait·laced·ness \-ˈlās(t)-nəs, -ˈlā-səd-nəs\ noun

Variants of STRAITLACED

strait·laced or straight·laced \ˈstrāt-ˈlāst\

Examples of STRAITLACED

1. <a very straitlaced old lady who believed that cleavage was something that should be shown by rock crystals, not respectable women>

First Known Use of STRAITLACED

1554

Related to STRAITLACED

Synonyms

bluenosed, nice-nelly, prim, prudish, puritanical, Victorian

Related Words

priggish, staid, stuffy; genteel, proper, refined; decent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuous

Near Antonyms

liberated, permissive; bad, immoral, improper, indecent, lax, lecherous, lickerish, loose, prurient, wicked; skanky [slang], slatternly, sleazy, sluttish, slutty, trampy; debauched, degenerate, degraded, depraved, perverted

Rhymes with STRAITLACED

bald-faced, barefaced, bold-faced, distaste, dough-faced, foretaste, impaste, lambaste, lightfaced, moonfaced, pie-faced, po-faced, posthaste, self-paced, shamefaced, shirtwaist, snail-paced, slipcased, stone-faced, straight-faced, toothpaste, two-faced, unchaste, unplaced, white-faced