strait-laced

Questions about strait-laced

What is another word for strait-laced?

It depends which strait-laced you mean. In the sense “exaggeratedly proper”, the synonyms are priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian. Across all 1 sense there are 11 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of strait-laced?

WordNet records no antonym for strait-laced. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for strait-laced come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of strait-laced

• Full entry for strait-lacedAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for strait-lacedWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.