puritanically

1. 1.

   in a prudish manner

   “she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste”

   Synonymsprudishly

Questions about puritanically

What does puritanically mean?

puritanically means "in a prudish manner".

How many syllables are in puritanically?

puritanically has 6 syllables: pu-ri-ta-ni-cal-ly. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for puritanically?

Close synonyms include prudishly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is puritanically a common word?

puritanically is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.