Synonyms for prude
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- person
Forms
- Plural
- prudes → puritans, goody-goodies, prigs, wowsers…
Example sentences
- puritan Jerome won't have sex with you, he's a total puritan.
- prig If you often think of yourself as a saint, you may simply be a prig.
By length
- 4 letters
- prig1
- 6 letters
- wowser
- 7 letters
- puritan3
- 10 letters
- erotophobe, celibacist
- 13 letters
- antisexualist
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (puritan3 = 3 syllables).