Synonyms of puritanical

puritanical

adjective

as in Victorian

given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals

some of the state laws concerning sexual behavior are vestiges of a more puritanical time and are rarely, if ever, enforced

Synonyms & Similar Words

• Victorian
• prudish
• straitlaced
• moral
• straightlaced
• prim
• priggish
• proper
• staid
• bluenosed
• refined
• nice-nelly
• honest
• upright
• stuffy
• decent
• virtuous
• genteel
• righteous
• right

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• permissive
• prurient
• immoral
• liberated
• wicked
• indecent
• lax
• improper
• bad
• lecherous
• loose
• sleazy
• depraved
• perverted
• debauched
• degenerate
• lickerish
• sluttish
• skanky
• slutty
• trampy
• degraded
• slatternly

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• permissive
• prurient
• immoral
• liberated
• wicked
• indecent
• lax
• improper
• bad
• lecherous
• loose
• sleazy
• depraved
• perverted
• debauched
• degenerate
• lickerish
• sluttish
• skanky
• slutty
• trampy
• degraded
• slatternly

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