Adjective: puritanical ,pyûr-i'ta-ni-kul
- Of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
"The town maintained puritanical laws well into the 20th century"
- Morally rigorous and strict
"she was anything but puritanical in her behaviour";
- blue, puritanic
- 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