prudish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: prud=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

prudish, a. 

 Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.  [1913 Webster]
"A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

prudish

Quakerish, Victorian, austere, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, critical, decorous, demure, discriminating, discriminative, exacting, fastidious, formal, fussy, genteel, hidebound, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, old-maidish, overmodest, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianistic, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, rigid, sanctimonious, scrupulous, selective, sensitive, severe, smug, squeamish, stern, stiff, stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stuffy

ROGET THESAURUS

prudish

Affectation

N affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.