Straitlaced

Definition: Straitlaced

Straitlaced

Adjective

1. Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts".

Synonyms: Straitlaced

Synonyms: priggish (adj), prim (adj), prissy (adj), prudish (adj), puritanical (adj), square-toed (adj), straightlaced (adj), tight-laced (adj), victorian (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fastidiousness	Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Straitlaced

English words defined with "straitlaced": priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical ♦ square-toed, straightlaced ♦ tight-laced ♦ Victorian. (references)

"Straitlaced" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Straitlaced" is used about 5 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)	80%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (past participle)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Language		Translations for "straitlaced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		strikt, i ngurtë (firm, obdurate, rigid, solid, stark, stiff, wooden). (various references)

Bulgarian		строг (astringent, austere, censorious, close, firm, grim, hard, hard and fast, hard-grained, hardhanded, ironclad, narrow, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, sinewy, stern, strict, stringent, taut, unaffable, uncharitable), тесногръд (doctrinaire, illiberal, insular, narrow, narrow minded, one track, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, single track, stuffy), пуритански (austere, priggish, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, round-headed, square-toed). (various references)

Czech		puritánský (puritan, squeamish). (various references)

German		prüde (modest, prude, prudish, stuffily). (various references)

Greek		σεμνότυφοσ (demure, priggish, prude, prudish, tight laced), αυστυρόσ. (various references)

Pig Latin		aitlacedstray

Portuguese		severo (austere, bad, bitter, blue, censorious, close, closet, cornered, dour, grim, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-faced, hard-grained, harsh, inclement, iron-bound, joggly, keen, pointed, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, scathing, severe, smart, squint-eyed, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent), rigoroso (austere, close, harsh, inclement, mathematical, rigorous, rigourous, rude, searching, severe, stiff, strait, strict, stringent), puritano (precisian, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, square-toes, strait), convincente (closing, cogent, conclusive, convincing, demonstrative, forceful, forcible, persuasive, potent, silver, stringent, tenable, two-fisted, valid, weighty). (various references)

Russian		строгий (astringent, austere, censorious, chaste, dour, hard, harsh, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent, taut, unaffable), пуританский (prudish, puritan, puritanic, puritanical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		moralno strog. (various references)

Swedish		puritansk (puritan, puritanic, puritanical). (various references)

Ukrainian		суворий (arctic, astringent, austere, censorious, dour, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-faced, inclement, iron, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, stringent, surly), пуританський (puritan, puritanic, puritanical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "straitlaced": straitlacedly, straitlacedness, straitlacednesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Straitlaced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: straitiaced. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-r-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: astricted, castrated, lacertids, radicates, tailraces, tetracids.
	-3 letters: acridest, airdates, alcaides, ariettas, aristate, articled, articles, cadaster, cadastre, calderas, castrate, castrati, cattails, citadels, citrated, citrates, clatters, cristate, dataries, decrials, detracts, detrital, dialects, diastral, dictates, dilatate, dilaters, distract, lacertid, lactated, lactates, lardiest, lariated, latticed, lattices, radiates, radicals, radicate, radicels, radicles, rattails, recitals, redtails, salaried, satiated.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: distractable.
	+2 letters: disarticulate, sacerdotalist, straightlaced, straitlacedly, ultradistance.
	+3 letters: disarticulated, disarticulates, misarticulated, sacerdotalists, ultradistances.
	+4 letters: dictatorialness, straitlacedness.
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Straitlaced

Definition: Straitlaced

Straitlaced

Adjective

Synonyms: Straitlaced

Synonyms within Context: Straitlaced

Fastidiousness

Crosswords: Straitlaced

Usage Frequency: Straitlaced

Modern Translation: Straitlaced

Albanian

Bulgarian

Czech

German

Greek

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Swedish

Ukrainian

Derivations & Misspellings: Straitlaced

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Misspellings

Anagrams: Straitlaced

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