straight-laced

Questions about straight-laced

What does straight-laced mean?

straight-laced means "exaggeratedly proper".

How many syllables are in straight-laced?

straight-laced has 2 syllables: straight--laced. The stress falls on "straight-".

What is another word for straight-laced?

Close synonyms include priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical. 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 straight-laced a common word?

straight-laced 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.