Definition for Puritanical:

• Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.

Synonyms for Puritanical:

• adj.

  •ascetic (adjective)
  • abstinent,
  • disciplined.
  •genteel (adjective)
  • old-maidish,
  • bluenosed.
  •prissy (adjective)
  • over-nice,
  • prim and proper,
  • tight-laced,
  • overnice.
  •proper, straitlaced (adjective)
  • prissy,
  • strict,
  • priggish,
  • conforming,
  • prudish,
  • prim,
  • rigid,
  • stuffy,
  • abstinent,
  • moral,
  • austere,
  • stern.
  •severe (adjective)
  • curt,
  • acrimonious,
  • demanding,
  • blunt,
  • keen,
  • exacting,
  • strict,
  • hidebound,
  • meticulous,
  • obstinate,
  • bleak,
  • stringent,
  • acerbic,
  • censorious,
  • prudish,
  • inflexible,
  • caustic,
  • sharp,
  • oppressive,
  • dour,
  • uncompromising,
  • lean,
  • stern,
  • piquant,
  • intense,
  • strait-laced,
  • critical,
  • acute,
  • grim,
  • abrupt,
  • austere,
  • severe,
  • chilly,
  • intolerant,
  • cutting,
  • unbending,
  • obdurate,
  • fundamental,
  • disciplined,
  • precise,
  • crisp,
  • imperial,
  • dry,
  • correct,
  • draconian,
  • tart,
  • relentless,
  • authoritarian,
  • stiff-necked,
  • spare,
  • ascetic,
  • stark,
  • rigorous,
  • spartan,
  • short,
  • frosty,
  • harsh,
  • icy,
  • raw,
  • cool,
  • basic,
  • brisk,
  • astringent,
  • brusque,
  • rigid,
  • gruff.
  •unoriginal (adjective)
  • conventional.

• n.

  •
  • holy,
  • spiritual,
  • observant,
  • orthodox,
  • devout,
  • religious,
  • pious,
  • godly.
  •
  • genteel,
  • prim and proper,
  • plain,
  • bluenosed,
  • old-maidish,
  • stuffy.
  •puritanical (noun)
  • prissy,
  • prim,
  • square-toed,
  • prudish,
  • puritan,
  • proper,
  • puritanic,
  • priggish,
  • victorian,
  • nonindulgent,
  • straightlaced,
  • blue,
  • tight-laced,
  • straitlaced.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pious,
  • old-maidish,
  • holy,
  • bluenosed,
  • practicing,
  • fanatical,
  • devoutly,
  • godly,
  • devout.
  •
  • observant,
  • devotee,
  • orthodox,
  • spiritual,
  • religious.
  •
  • conventional.
  •
  • faithful,
  • genteel.
  •
  • stuffy.
  •
  • proper.
  •Victorian
  • victorian.
  •Other relevant words:
  • formal,
  • prejudiced,
  • aristocratical,
  • close-minded,
  • hard-nosed,
  • modest,
  • holy,
  • evangelical,
  • blasphemous,
  • unrelenting,
  • red-necked,
  • gloomy,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • eremitic,
  • gamey,
  • devoutly,
  • conceited,
  • juicy,
  • reactionary,
  • rockbound,
  • old-maidish,
  • ironclad,
  • low,
  • disconsolate,
  • abstemious,
  • dark,
  • goody-goody,
  • cheerless,
  • depressing,
  • priggish,
  • humourless,
  • dispiriting,
  • blue-blooded,
  • literalistic,
  • parochial,
  • stubborn,
  • concave,
  • devout,
  • moral,
  • squeamish,
  • conscientious,
  • grave,
  • racy,
  • opinionated,
  • iron,
  • saturnine,
  • narrow,
  • flagellant,
  • sober,
  • niminy-piminy,
  • monkish,
  • sombre,
  • squared-toe,
  • frowning,
  • conventional,
  • prissy,
  • demure,
  • prim,
  • practicing,
  • celibate,
  • continent,
  • over-modest,
  • smug,
  • sensitive,
  • anchoritic,
  • old fashioned,
  • sanctimonious,
  • dogmatic,
  • illiberal,
  • twee,
  • chaste,
  • conforming,
  • religious,
  • purist,
  • namby-pamby,
  • dispirited,
  • conservative,
  • picky,
  • inexorable,
  • Impliable,
  • sabbatarian,
  • stiff,
  • finical,
  • muscle-bound,
  • abstainer,
  • sentimental,
  • moralistic,
  • fastidious,
  • black,
  • puritan,
  • plain,
  • over-nice,
  • Literalist,
  • firm,
  • one-sided,
  • non-objective,
  • naughty,
  • pragmatical,
  • proper,
  • abstinent,
  • Procrustean,
  • petty,
  • square,
  • downcast,
  • bigoted,
  • teetotal,
  • pietistic,
  • godly,
  • particular,
  • overmodest,
  • Puristic,
  • devotee,
  • uptight,
  • choosy,
  • temperate,
  • blue,
  • nonindulgent,
  • Simpering,
  • Ironbound,
  • faithful,
  • rigourous,
  • victorian,
  • mendicant,
  • prig,
  • staunch,
  • ascetical,
  • straitlaced,
  • Quakerish,
  • hard-line,
  • protestantism,
  • fanatical,
  • moderate,
  • profane,
  • hard,
  • pious,
  • spicy,
  • pure,
  • seemly,
  • decent,
  • stuffy,
  • observant,
  • nice,
  • absolute,
  • spiritual,
  • disapproving,
  • blueish,
  • scrupulous,
  • ultra-conservative,
  • square-toed,
  • Barkbound,
  • self-denying,
  • fundamentalist,
  • aristocratic,
  • po-faced,
  • pettifogging,
  • discriminative,
  • straight-laced,
  • mincing,
  • literal-minded,
  • selective,
  • Precisianist,
  • forbidding,
  • punctilious,
  • orthodox,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • tight-laced,
  • careful,
  • risque,
  • overnice,
  • Coxcomical,
  • fussy,
  • Rigorist,
  • bluff,
  • righteous,
  • cynical,
  • bluish,
  • foppish,
  • dainty,
  • ironhanded,
  • prim and proper,
  • unyielding,
  • straightlaced,
  • unprogressive,
  • depressed,
  • exact,
  • biased,
  • puritanic,
  • narrow-minded,
  • decorous,
  • discriminating,
  • sorry,
  • starch,
  • self-righteous,
  • bluenosed,
  • unconditional,
  • genteel,
  • dandified,
  • Finikin,
  • nice nelly,
  • dismal,
  • gentle,
  • solemn,
  • patrician,
  • small-minded,
  • perfectionistic,
  • choicy.

Antonyms for Puritanical:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    depraved, degraded, permissive, lax, liberated, immoral, loose, degenerate, Lickerish, debauched, perverted, bad, wicked, prurient.