Word Meanings - PRUDISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners. A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face. Garrick.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRUDISH)

• Demure
• Sedate
• staid
• grave
• modest
• downcast
• sober
• dispassionate
• prudish
• discreet
• Puritanical
• Prudish
• ascetic
• demure

Related words: (words related to PRUDISH)

• DEMURE
  good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• SEDATE
  Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• MODESTLY
  In a modest manner.
• ASCETIC
  Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe. The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline. Sir W. Scott.
• STAIDNESS
  The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• STAID
  imp. & p. p. of Stay.
• STAIDLY
  In a staid manner, sedately.
• SOBERIZE
  To sober. Crabbe.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• PURITANICALLY
  In a puritanical manner.
• DEMURENESS
  The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• SOBERLY
  In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
• DEMURELY
  In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
  In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
• IMMODESTLY
  In an immodest manner.
• CHRYSOBERYL
  A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.
• INGRAVE
  To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
• INDISCREET
  Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak. Syn. -- Imprudent; injudicious; inconsiderate; rash; hasty; incautious; heedless; undiscerning; foolish. -- In`dis*creet"ly, adv. -- In`dis*creet"ness, n. (more