prude
noun [C] /pruːd/ disapprovingDefinition
› a person who is easily shocked by rude things, especially those of a sexual type: Don't be such a prude.Narrow-minded prudish /ˈpruː.dɪʃ/ adjective › I don't consider myself prudish but I do think the sex scenes in the film were a bit excessive.Narrow-minded prudishly /ˈpruː.dɪʃ.li/ adverb prudishness /ˈpruː.dɪʃ.nəs/ noun [U] (also prudery)
(Definition of prude noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinkered adjective
- hidebound adjective
- illiberal adjective
- insular adjective
- intolerance noun
- intolerant adjective
- myopic adjective
- narrow-minded adjective
- parochial adjective (LIMITED)
- petty adjective
- prim adjective
- short-sighted adjective (THOUGHT)
- small-minded adjective
- strait-laced adjective
- unreconstructed adjective
- unthinking adjective
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