Definition for Puritans:

• In Eng. Hist., a name generally applied to dissenters from the Church of England, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I. See Cathari.

Synonyms for Puritans:

• n.

  •prig (noun)
  • snob,
  • fussbudget.
  •prude (noun)
  • victorian,
  • goody-goody,
  • goody two-shoes,
  • old maid.
  •zealots (noun)
  • zealots,
  • sectarians,
  • evangelists,
  • sermonizers,
  • fundamentalists,
  • crusaders,
  • faith healers,
  • fanatics,
  • Bible thumpers,
  • Missionaries,
  • iconoclasts.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • chauvinist,
  • diehard,
  • doctrinaire,
  • dogmatist,
  • enthusiast,
  • extremist,
  • fanatic,
  • fiend,
  • maniac,
  • monomaniac,
  • partisan,
  • persecutor,
  • prig,
  • prissy,
  • prude,
  • prudish,
  • puritan,
  • racist,
  • sectarian,
  • segregationist,
  • sexist,
  • stickler,
  • upright,
  • zealot,
  • straight-laced,
  • superpatriot,
  • opinionated person.
  •Other relevant words:
  • anti-semite,
  • antiblack,
  • cape periwinkle,
  • cayenne jasmine,
  • daemon,
  • daimon,
  • dainty,
  • demon,
  • erect,
  • fanatical,
  • fancier,
  • flag-waver,
  • good,
  • hundred-percenter,
  • jingo,
  • jingoist,
  • just,
  • lunatic,
  • madman,
  • male chauvinist,
  • maniacal,
  • monster,
  • nice,
  • ogre,
  • old maid flower,
  • overnice,
  • overzealous,
  • partizan,
  • periwinkle,
  • priggish,
  • prim,
  • puritanical,
  • rabid,
  • racialist,
  • radical,
  • red periwinkle,
  • rose periwinkle,
  • segregator,
  • snoot,
  • spinster,
  • square-toed,
  • squeamish,
  • straightlaced,
  • straitlaced,
  • tight-laced,
  • tormenter,
  • tormentor,
  • traditionalist,
  • ultra,
  • unsloped,
  • upright piano,
  • vertical,
  • zinnia,
  • patrioteer,
  • drumbeater,
  • strait-laced,
  • snot,
  • devil.

Antonyms for Puritans:

• n.

  • bigot
    moderate, humanitarian, tolerator, liberal.

Puritans Sentence Examples:

• The earl's family, and his own " large father - like heart," had ever been opposed to religious persecution; and timely toleration to the Lollards might have prevented the long - delayed revenge of their posterity, the Puritans.

• So, too, of the New England Puritans!

Homophones for Puritans:

• predation, peridinium, preteen, pare down, party man, paper thin, peridinian, parthenium, pyridium, proudhon, parthenon, protoheme, proteome, preordain, protein, pro tem, protean, protium, portion, parthian, pure tone, peridium, part name, peroration, parttime, protohemin, pyridine, pertain, parathion, peritoneum, proton, per diem, pardon, protamine, pyrrhotine, perdition, pertainym, pour down, part-time, port wine, partition, proration.