416 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɹˈuːdɪʃ], [ pɹˈuːdɪʃ], [ p_ɹ_ˈuː_d_ɪ_ʃ]

Similar words for prudish:

• chaste (adjective)
• coy (adjective)
• delicate (adjective)
• demure (adjective)
• fastidious (adjective)
• genteel (adjective)
• goody-goody (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• prim (adjective)
• prissy (adjective)
• proper (adjective)
• prudish (adjective)
• severe (adjective)
• squeamish (adjective)
• strict (adjective)
• stuffy (adjective)
• goody two-shoes (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• overnice (noun)
• other synonyms
• Victorian
• other relevant words (noun)

Synonyms for Prudish:

• adj.

  • chaste (adjective)
  • restrained,
  • celibate,
  • decorous,
  • stainless,
  • refined,
  • wholesome,
  • subdued,
  • platonic,
  • undefiled,
  • simple,
  • unblemished,
  • quiet,
  • inexperienced,
  • decent,
  • continent,
  • unstained,
  • controlled,
  • unwed,
  • innocent,
  • clean,
  • immaculate,
  • unsullied,
  • neat,
  • elegant,
  • vestal,
  • spotless,
  • virtuous,
  • modest,
  • unaffected,
  • impotent,
  • moral,
  • prudish.
  • coy (adjective)
  • bashful,
  • shrinking,
  • backward,
  • humble,
  • kittenish,
  • reserved,
  • shy,
  • retiring,
  • diffident,
  • flirtatious,
  • self-effacing,
  • skittish,
  • coquettish,
  • blushing,
  • timid,
  • evasive.
  • delicate (adjective)
  • pure,
  • finical,
  • alert,
  • careful,
  • finicky,
  • particular,
  • persnickety,
  • gentle,
  • dainty,
  • critical,
  • nice.
  • demure (adjective)
  • strait-laced,
  • serious,
  • close,
  • earnest,
  • silent,
  • staid,
  • unassuming,
  • sober,
  • sedate,
  • reticent,
  • solemn.
  • fastidious (adjective)
  • epicurean,
  • choosy,
  • exacting,
  • demanding,
  • picky,
  • accurate,
  • fastidious,
  • literal,
  • perspicacious,
  • mincing,
  • correct,
  • fussy,
  • priggish,
  • discerning,
  • diligent,
  • conscientious,
  • scrupulous,
  • hypercritical,
  • methodical,
  • flawless,
  • punctilious,
  • precise,
  • severe,
  • meticulous,
  • rigorous,
  • discriminating.
  • genteel (adjective)
  • fashionable,
  • polite,
  • chivalrous,
  • stylish,
  • mannerly,
  • respectable,
  • graceful,
  • noble,
  • la-di-da,
  • ostentatious,
  • civil,
  • distingue,
  • intolerant,
  • wellmannered,
  • pompous,
  • confined,
  • well-bred,
  • formal,
  • polished,
  • well-mannered,
  • courtly,
  • courteous,
  • precious,
  • cultivated,
  • well-behaved,
  • hollow,
  • urbane,
  • aristocratic.
  • goody-goody (adjective)
  • puritan,
  • politically correct,
  • pious,
  • unctuous,
  • self-righteous,
  • pc,
  • god-fearing,
  • holier-than-thou.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • overmodest,
  • hardboiled,
  • nit-picking,
  • goody-goody,
  • monogamous,
  • rabbity,
  • prim,
  • uncontaminated,
  • chaste,
  • puritanical,
  • coy,
  • spic and span,
  • up set,
  • over-modest,
  • straitlaced,
  • uncluttered,
  • unassertive,
  • unassured,
  • Intemerate,
  • demure,
  • dead set,
  • proper,
  • no nonsense,
  • strict,
  • virginal,
  • Stickling,
  • ironfisted,
  • blue-nose,
  • Qualmish,
  • genteel,
  • Iron-fisted,
  • Finicking,
  • abstinent,
  • stuffy,
  • squeamish,
  • spic-and-span,
  • prissy,
  • Bluenose,
  • delicate.
  • prim (adjective)
  • good,
  • ceremonial,
  • tidy,
  • shipshape,
  • ceremonious,
  • well-groomed,
  • orderly,
  • spruce,
  • upright,
  • wooden,
  • straight,
  • cleanly.
  • prissy (adjective)
  • sissified,
  • sissy,
  • pansified,
  • goody-two-shoes,
  • epicene.
  • proper (adjective)
  • befitting,
  • by the numbers,
  • becoming,
  • right,
  • solid,
  • stone,
  • be fitting,
  • stoner,
  • conforming,
  • in line,
  • by the book,
  • be coming,
  • Comme Il Faut,
  • comely,
  • by numbers,
  • de rigueur.
  • prudish (adjective)
  • austere,
  • stern,
  • rigid.
  • severe (adjective)
  • harsh,
  • imperial,
  • ascetic,
  • spartan,
  • brusque,
  • piquant,
  • dry,
  • keen,
  • cool,
  • draconian,
  • raw,
  • chilly,
  • fundamental,
  • sharp,
  • intense,
  • stiff-necked,
  • cutting,
  • obstinate,
  • crisp,
  • brisk,
  • short,
  • curt,
  • lean,
  • astringent,
  • dour,
  • bleak,
  • spare,
  • acrimonious,
  • abrupt,
  • stark,
  • uncompromising,
  • blunt,
  • icy,
  • authoritarian,
  • relentless,
  • oppressive,
  • tart,
  • caustic,
  • inflexible,
  • hidebound,
  • stringent,
  • frosty,
  • obdurate,
  • grim,
  • basic,
  • gruff,
  • unbending,
  • disciplined,
  • acerbic,
  • acute,
  • censorious.
  • squeamish (adjective)
  • un settled,
  • most qualmish,
  • sick to one stomach,
  • dis gusted,
  • sick to stomach,
  • un-settled,
  • up-set,
  • sick one's stomach,
  • ex acting,
  • dis-gusted,
  • sick ones stomach,
  • vertiginous,
  • sick one stomach,
  • sick to ones stomach,
  • hyper critical,
  • sick to one's stomach,
  • hyper-critical,
  • more qualmish,
  • ex-acting,
  • sick stomach.
  • strict (adjective)
  • hard boiled,
  • un permissive,
  • unpermissive,
  • most iron fisted,
  • most iron-fisted,
  • most ironfisted,
  • un-permissive,
  • most unpermissive,
  • more iron-fisted,
  • more unpermissive,
  • nononsense,
  • up tight,
  • more iron fisted,
  • iron fisted,
  • up-tight,
  • more ironfisted.
  • stuffy (adjective)
  • puffy,
  • humorless,
  • self-important.

• n.

  •
  • touchy,
  • defensive,
  • moody,
  • sensitive,
  • hypersensitive,
  • fragile.
  •
  • plain,
  • prim and proper.
  • goody two-shoes (noun)
  • up-rights,
  • up rights,
  • straight-laceds,
  • straightlaceds,
  • goody-goodies,
  • straight laced,
  • goodygoodies,
  • prissies,
  • goody twoshoes,
  • prudishes,
  • goody two shoes,
  • straight laceds,
  • goody goodies.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • straight-laced,
  • uprights,
  • Puritans,
  • straightlaced,
  • goody two-shoes,
  • prigs,
  • Victorians,
  • character trait,
  • blue.
  • overnice (noun)
  • like a maiden aunt,
  • prudish as an old maid,
  • blue-nosed,
  • over-refined.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • oversensitive,
  • thin-skinned,
  • old-maidish,
  • prudery,
  • bluenosed,
  • Chippy,
  • prude.
  •
  • sensibility.
  •
  • sensitivity.
  • Victorian
  • victorian.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • fuddy-duddy,
  • discriminative,
  • starch,
  • forbidding,
  • niminy-piminy,
  • dignified,
  • nice nelly,
  • humourless,
  • Simpering,
  • sanctimonious,
  • affected,
  • narrow-minded,
  • perfectionist,
  • difficult,
  • dandified,
  • square-toed,
  • Puristic,
  • saturnine,
  • namby-pamby,
  • easily upset,
  • bluff,
  • hard-nosed,
  • Quakerish,
  • conventional,
  • Finikin,
  • seemly,
  • pretentious,
  • bigoted,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • selective,
  • sentimental,
  • disapproving,
  • conservative,
  • stilted,
  • twee,
  • queasy,
  • pernickety,
  • beautiful,
  • artificial,
  • squared-toe,
  • stiff,
  • smug,
  • over-nice,
  • overnice,
  • illiberal,
  • starchy,
  • uptight,
  • foppish,
  • conceited,
  • narrow,
  • pietistic,
  • pragmatical,
  • due,
  • Barkbound,
  • painstaking,
  • frowning,
  • sombre,
  • square,
  • tight-laced,
  • hard-line,
  • perfectionistic,
  • oldmaidish,
  • moralistic,
  • pedantic,
  • prig,
  • grave,
  • overexact,
  • easily offended,
  • Coxcomical,
  • choicy,
  • old fashioned,
  • puritanic,
  • schoolgirlish,
  • offish,
  • po-faced.