177 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ stɹˈe͡ɪtle͡ɪst], [ stɹˈe‍ɪtle‍ɪst], [ s_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t_l_eɪ_s_t]

Similar words for straitlaced:

• formal (adjective)
• genteel (adjective)
• old-maidish (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• prudish (adjective)
• stuffy (adjective)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Homophones for straitlaced

Synonyms for Straitlaced:

• adj.

  • formal (adjective)
  • stiff,
  • strict,
  • proper,
  • rigid.
  • genteel (adjective)
  • wellmannered,
  • well-bred,
  • old-maidish,
  • distingue,
  • bluenosed.
  • old-maidish (adjective)
  • oldmaidish.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • overmodest,
  • genteel,
  • stuffy,
  • over-modest,
  • over-nice.
  • prudish (adjective)
  • more overmodest,
  • most overexact,
  • narrow minded,
  • most overmodest,
  • up tight,
  • over exact,
  • over-exact,
  • most overnice,
  • most simpering,
  • up-tight,
  • narrowminded,
  • de-mure,
  • more simpering,
  • over modest,
  • overexact,
  • more overnice,
  • more overexact,
  • over nice,
  • de mure.
  • stuffy (adjective)
  • humorless,
  • prim and proper,
  • puffy,
  • self-important.

• n.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • prissy,
  • prudish,
  • puritanical,
  • strait-laced,
  • tight-laced,
  • straightlaced,
  • straight-laced,
  • priggish,
  • victorian,
  • square-toed,
  • prim.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • illiberal,
  • antiquated,
  • Impliable,
  • mean,
  • fanatical,
  • small,
  • rockbound,
  • ironclad,
  • Barkbound,
  • Procrustean,
  • mincing,
  • inflexible,
  • authoritarian,
  • scrupulous,
  • narrow gauge,
  • difficult,
  • stringent,
  • stubborn,
  • moralizing,
  • fundamentalist,
  • seemly,
  • parochial,
  • finicky,
  • hypercritical,
  • modest,
  • archaic,
  • Borne,
  • uncharitable,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • primitive,
  • puritan,
  • queasy,
  • niminy-piminy,
  • petty,
  • didactic,
  • narrow,
  • deaf,
  • obstinate,
  • demure,
  • sanctimonious,
  • old-time,
  • puritanic,
  • fastidious,
  • dour,
  • closed,
  • starchy,
  • Puristic,
  • evangelical,
  • hard,
  • old fashioned,
  • dated,
  • Ironbound,
  • relentless,
  • demanding,
  • iron,
  • Rigorist,
  • little,
  • ironhanded,
  • bigot,
  • nice,
  • finical,
  • cramped,
  • small-minded,
  • precise,
  • anal,
  • purblind,
  • rigorous,
  • literalistic,
  • moralistic,
  • libertine,
  • unrelenting,
  • low-tech,
  • bigoted,
  • ungenerous,
  • Lickerish,
  • nice nelly,
  • smug,
  • constricted,
  • squared-toe,
  • unbending,
  • stern,
  • stiff-necked,
  • squeamish,
  • blue,
  • insular,
  • beautiful,
  • delicate,
  • shortsighted,
  • hidebound,
  • Precisianist,
  • decent,
  • unyielding,
  • prig,
  • obsolete,
  • twee,
  • Literalist,
  • particular,
  • dogmatic,
  • querulous,
  • inexorable,
  • orthodox,
  • censorious,
  • Squeasy,
  • severe,
  • muscle-bound,
  • purist,
  • thin-skinned,
  • formal,
  • exacting,
  • meticulous,
  • obdurate,
  • pure,
  • overnice,
  • austere,
  • decorous,
  • out,
  • overcritical,
  • narrow-minded,
  • staunch,
  • uncompromising,
  • provincial,
  • closed-minded,
  • firm,
  • easily offended,
  • Old World,
  • nearsighted,
  • dainty,
  • easily upset.

Homophones for Straitlaced:

• streetlight, strait-laced.