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Definition: Puritanical |
PuritanicalAdjective1. Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts". 2. Morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puritanical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references) |
Synonyms: PuritanicalSynonyms: blue(a) (adj), priggish (adj), prim (adj), prissy (adj), prudish (adj), puritan (adj), puritanic (adj), square-toed (adj), straightlaced (adj), straitlaced (adj), tight-laced (adj), victorian (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | 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. |
Asceticism | Adjective: ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; over-religious; acerbic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Puritanical |
| English words defined with "puritanical": blue, Blue laws ♦ puritan, puritanic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puritanical": Hope-on-High Bomby ♦ Pogram ♦ STRAIT-LACED, Sweet Singers. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | John D. Rockefeller, Jr., attaching a can to the coattails of a puritanical character representing the Prohibitionists. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Lord Melbourne | Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. |
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| "Puritanical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Puritanical" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 88 | 35,154 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "puritanical": blueprenominal puritan puritanical. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "puritanical": feminist-puritanical. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
euphoric misanthropia puritanical | 4 |
puritanical | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "puritanical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | puritan (prude, prudish, puritan, puritanic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متزمت (austere, pi, prim, puritan, rigid, rigorous, severe, stick in the mud, strict), صفائي تابع للمذهب الصفائي, بيوريتانية مذهب التطهرية, بيوريتاني عضو مذهب البيوربياني, بوريتانية مذهب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пуритански (austere, priggish, puritan, puritanic, round-headed, square-toed, straitlaced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وابسته بفرقه پیوریتان ها, وابسته به پاک دینان . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | puritain (puritain, puritan), de puritain. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | puritanisch (puritanic, puritanically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πουριτανικόσ (puritanic), αυστηρόσ (austere, censorious, crucial, disciplinarian, puritanic, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | puritán (austere, puritan, puritanic, severe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "そ泥 (because of this, besides, by doing, by means of, can, clicking, compact, drumming, dry, due to this, frightened, happens on occasions, hard, has occurred, hitch, in addition, it has been arrangedthat, it has been decidedthat, it is I who should say so, laboriously, lately, maybe, misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", moreover, perhaps, possibly, prejudice, recently, regularToukai-line shinkansen, secretly, sneak-thief, sound of rapping, steadily, stealthily, such a thing happened, thanks to this, the other day, there are times when, through, to be able to, to be concerned about, to be particular about, to fuss over, to have done, to this extent, trouble, unflaggingly, untiringly, using, via). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "ち"ち (dry, frightened, hard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ro-chrauee (puritan), puritaanagh (puritan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uritanicalpay puritano (precisian, puritan, puritanic, square-toes, strait, straitlaced), próprio de puritano (puritanic). (various references) пуританский (prudish, puritan, puritanic, straitlaced). (various references) puritanski (puristic, puritan, puritanic). (various references) puritano (bluenose, puritan, puritanic, strait laced). (various references) puritansk (puritan, puritanic, straitlaced). (various references) เคร่งศาสนามาก. (various references) püritenlere ait, tutucu (conservative, dyed in the wool, fanatical, fuddy-duddy, hidebound, puritan, sectarian, square-toed, stick in the mud, strait laced, stuffy, unprogressive, uptight, wowser), gerici (obscurant, obscurantist, reactionary, retrograde, retrogressive, stick in the mud, unprogressive), bağnaz (bigoted, fanatical, hard-shell, illiberal, narrow minded, puritan, rabid, sectarian, strait laced, zealous). (various references) пуританський (puritan, puritanic, straitlaced). (various references) đạo đức chủ nghĩa (puritanic). (various references) piwritanaidd (puritan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puritanical": puritanically. (additional references) | |
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"Puritanical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Puritania, puritanian, puritannical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puritanical" (pronounced pyuh'ruta"nikul) |
| 8 | -u t a" n i k u l | botanical. |
| 6 | -a" n i k u l | electromechanical, mechanical, tyrannical. |
| 5 | -n i k u l | conical, cynical, ecumenical, ethnical, galenical, ironical, nontechnical, preclinical, rabbinical, technical. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, evangelical, fanatical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, morphological, musical, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, popsicle, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, whimsical, zoological. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-i-l-n-p-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: capitular, patrician, piratical, tarpaulin. | |
-3 letters: cantraip, capitula, iatrical, nautical, piacular, platinic, uralitic, uranitic. | |
-4 letters: actinal, actinia, antiair, anticar, apiculi, aplitic, caltrap, cantrap, cantrip, capital, captain, carinal, cranial, culprit, curtail, curtain, lacunar, lunatic, lupanar, natural, nauplii, nautili, nuptial, partial, pintail, piratic, plantar, platina, puranic, puritan, tilapia, unplait. | |
-5 letters: acinar, actual, antiar, antral, anural, anuria, anuric. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-i-l-n-p-r-t-u" | |
+2 letters: puritanically. | |
+3 letters: paralinguistic, recapitulating, recapitulation. | |
+4 letters: paralinguistics, particularising, particularizing, pronunciational, quadruplicating, quadruplication, recapitulations. | |
+5 letters: micromanipulator, prequalification, quadruplications, undercapitalized. | |
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