Entry Word: straitlaced

Function: adjective

Meaning:

or straightlaced

given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals <a very straitlaced old lady who believed women shouldn't even show a bare ankle in public>

Synonyms prim, prudish, puritanical

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

Near Antonyms liberated, permissive; bad, immoral, improper, indecent, lax, loose, wicked; debauched, degenerate, degraded, depraved, perverted