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prudish 音标拼音: [pr'udɪʃ] a. 装淑女样子的,装规矩的,过分规矩的 装淑女样子的,装规矩的,过分规矩的 prudish adj 1: exaggeratedly proper; " my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn' t approve of my miniskirts" [ synonym: { priggish}, { prim}, { prissy}, { prudish}, { puritanical}, { square- toed}, { straitlaced}, { strait- laced}, { straightlaced}, { straight- laced}, { tight- laced}, { victorian}] Prudish \ Prud" ish\, a. Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners. [ 1913 Webster] A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face. -- Garrick. [ 1913 Webster] 51 Moby Thesaurus words for " prudish": Quakerish, Victorian, austere, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, critical, decorous, demure, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formal, fussy, genteel, hidebound, meticulous, mid- Victorian, narrow, old- maidish, overmodest, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, rigid, sanctimonious, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, severe, smug, squeamish, stern, stiff, stiff- necked, strait- laced, straitlaced, strict, stuffy
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