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Word | Puritan |
Italian Meaning | Puritano |
morally rigorous and strict; blue laws; the puritan work ethic; puritanic distaste for alcohol; she was anything but puritanical in her behavior / someone who adheres to strict religious principles / a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship / a small hard inflamed spot on the skin., | |
Usage | ⇒ You've learned the hard way that picking pimples can leave small scars or even big crater-like ones. |
Synonyms | prude, puritanic, puritanical, fanatic, prig, ascetic, zealot, abstainer, blue, bluenose, pietist, proper, religionist, strict, anchorite, bigot, fundamentalist, goody-goody, hermit, monk, |
Antonyms | aspiring, libertine, sybarite, sensualist, |
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