prudenoun [ C ]
uk/pruːd/us/pruːd/disapprovinga person who is easily shocked by rude things, especially those of a sexual type:
Don't be such a prude.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Narrow-minded
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinders idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinker
- blinkered
- hidebound
- insular
- intolerance
- intolerant
- myopic
- narrow-minded
- parochial
- petty
- prim
- set
- short-sighted
- strait-laced
- unreconstructed
- unthinking
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prudish
adjective uk/ˈpruː.dɪʃ/us/ˈpruː.dɪʃ/
I don't consider myself prudish but I do think the sex scenes in the film were a bit excessive.
prudishly
adverb uk/ˈpruː.dɪʃ.li/us/ˈpruː.dɪʃ.li/
prudishness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈpruː.dɪʃ.nəs/us/ˈpruː.dɪʃ.nəs/also prudery,