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puritanical 音標拼音: [pj ,ʊrət'ænɪkəl] a. 清教的;禁欲的 清教的;禁欲的 puritanical adj 1: of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism 2: exaggeratedly proper; " my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn' t approve of my miniskirts" [ synonym: { priggish}, { prim}, { prissy}, { prudish}, { puritanical}, { square- toed}, { straitlaced}, { strait- laced}, { straightlaced}, { straight- laced}, { tight- laced}, { victorian}] 3: morally rigorous and strict; " the puritan work ethic"; " puritanic distaste for alcohol"; " she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" [ synonym: { blue( a)}, { puritanic}, { puritanical}] Puritanic \ Pu` ri* tan" ic\, Puritanical \ Pu` ri* tan" ic* al\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt. [ 1913 Webster] Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil. -- Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster] 93 Moby Thesaurus words for " puritanical": Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Trappist, Victorian, Waldensian, abstinent, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, bigoted, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, creedbound, critical, demure, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic, dour, eremitic, evangelical, exacting, fastidious, firm, flagellant, fundamentalist, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, literalist, literalistic, mendicant, meticulous, mid- Victorian, muscle- bound, narrow, obdurate, obstinate, old- maidish, orthodox, overmodest, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianist, precisianistic, priggish, prim, procrustean, prudish, punctilious, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, scrupulous, selective, self- denying, sensitive, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff- necked, straightlaced, straitlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, wedded to poverty
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