straight-laced

短语

= strait-laced

词形变化

more straight-laced 比较级 straighter-laced straightest-laced straighter-laced 比较级 most straight-laced 最高级 straightest-laced 最高级

别名

straitlaced straightlaced strait-laced

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Having narrow views on moral matters; prudish.

    古板

    守旧

    保守

    拘谨

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 9

prissy prim prudish puritanical Victorian priggish square-toed strait-laced tightlaced

近义相关 1

proper

词源

Widely agreed to have originated (centuries ago) in homophonic confusion (in speech) of strait-laced (“tight-laced”), but long since so widely accepted and used, because having such strongly apparent analogy with straight in its senses relating to orthodoxy and conformity (compare squareness), that it can no longer accurately be called erroneous; instead it is an established alternative form with its own reanalyzed surface analysis. Compare straitjacket with *straightjacket; the latter is still usually regarded as an error, but the relationship is analogous.

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