tight-laced

Questions about tight-laced

What does tight-laced mean?

tight-laced means "exaggeratedly proper".

How many syllables are in tight-laced?

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

What is another word for tight-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 tight-laced a common word?

tight-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.