All prudish synonyms
prud·ish
P p adj prudish
- distingue — having an air of distinction; distinguished.
- in line — (of an internal-combustion engine) having the cylinders ranged side by side in one or more rows along the crankshaft.
- delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
- demure — If you describe someone, usually a young woman, as demure, you mean they are quiet and rather shy, usually in a way that you like and find appealing, and behave very correctly.
- ironfisted — ruthless, harsh, and tyrannical: an ironfisted dictator.
- monogamous — practicing or advocating monogamy.
- dead set — absolutely
- goody goody — a person who is self-righteously, affectedly, or cloyingly good.
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- abstinent — forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages: total abstinence.
- by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- intemerate — inviolate; undefiled; unsullied; pure.
- proper — adapted or appropriate to the purpose or circumstances; fit; suitable: the proper time to plant strawberries.
- goody-goody — a person who is self-righteously, affectedly, or cloyingly good.
- goody-two-shoes — a goody-goody.
- chaste — If you describe a person or their behaviour as chaste, you mean that they do not have sex with anyone, or they only have sex with their husband or wife.
- iron-fisted — ruthless, harsh, and tyrannical: an ironfisted dictator.
- coy — evasive, esp in an annoying way
- genteel — belonging or suited to polite society.
adjective prudish
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- humourless — (British spelling, Canadian) alternative spelling of humorless.
- finicking — Finical.
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
adverb prudish
- demurely — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
noun prudish
- goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
- goody two-shoes — goody-goody