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Adjective puritanical has 3 senses
- puritanical - of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism
- priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Antonym: improper (indirect, via proper)
- blue, puritan, puritanic, puritanical - morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
Antonym: indulgent (indirect, via nonindulgent)
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