Definition for Straitlaced:

• Laced tightly, as corsets; very strict in manners or morals.

Synonyms for Straitlaced:

• adj.

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

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • genteel,
  • overmodest,
  • stuffy,
  • over-nice,
  • over-modest.
  •n.
  • priggish,
  • prim,
  • prissy,
  • prudish,
  • puritanical,
  • square-toed,
  • straightlaced,
  • tight-laced,
  • victorian,
  • strait-laced,
  • straight-laced.

Antonyms for Straitlaced:

• adj.

  • formal
    broad-minded, permissive.
  • Other antonyms:
    sleazy, degraded, bad, skanky, slatternly, prurient, debauched, lecherous, lax, loose, immoral, liberated, degenerate, wicked, trampy, sluttish, Lickerish, depraved, perverted, indecent, improper.

Straitlaced Sentence Examples:

• Day after day she fretted and blamed her husband until he heartily wished her back from whence he had taken her; wished her back with her straitlaced lover from whom he had stolen her; wished her anywhere save where she was.

• I suppose, as Bob says, I must have become straitlaced and sanctimonious; but I hate to look upon it in that light.

Homophones for Straitlaced:

• streetlight, strait-laced.