HyperDic: tight-laced

English > 1 sense of the word tight-laced:
ADJECTIVEalltight-laced, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, victorianexaggeratedly proper
English > tight-laced: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningexaggeratedly proper.
Synonymspriggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, victorian
Broaderpropermarked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
Spanishgazmoño, mojigato, pudibundo, puritano, remilgado

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