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Adjective: puritanical  ,pyûr-i'ta-ni-kul
  1. Of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
    "The town maintained puritanical laws well into the 20th century"
     
  2. Morally rigorous and strict
    "she was anything but puritanical in her behaviour";
    - blue, puritanic
     
  3. Exaggeratedly proper
    "my puritanical Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts";
    - priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed [archaic], straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian, bluenosed [US, informal], uptight [informal]

See also: nonindulgent, proper, strict

Encyclopedia: Puritanical