Main entry: blue, puritanic, puritanical
Definition: morally rigorous and strict
Usage: the puritan work ethic; puritanic distaste for alcohol; she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
Main entry: victorian, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical
Definition: exaggeratedly proper
Usage: my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
Main entry: puritanical
Definition: of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism