English-Thai Dictionary

strait-laced

A ที่ มี ความพิถีพิถัน เกินไป  ที่ เป็น ผู้ดี เกินไป  ที่ รัด เกินไป 

 

strait-laced

ADJ พิถีพิถัน มาก ไป  strict stiff prudish pi-te-pi-tan-mak-pai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STRAIT-LACED

a.[strait and lace. ] 1. Griped with stays.
We have few well-shaped that are strait-laced.
2. Stiff; constrained. Hence,
3. Rigid in opinion; strict.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STRAIT-LACED

STRAIT-LACED Strait "-laced `, a.

 

1. Bound with stays. Let nature have scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. Locke.

 

2. Restricted; stiff; constrained. [R.] Fuller.

 

3. Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

strait-laced

strait-laced |streɪt leɪst |(also straight-laced ) ▶adjective having or showing very strict moral attitudes. usage: As an adjective, strait means ‘narrow or cramped ’ and ‘strict or rigorous ’: the idea behind strait-laced and straitjacket is of being tightly laced or confined. As strait is now old-fashioned and unfamilar, however, people often interpret it as the more usual word straight. Straight-laced and straightjacket are now generally accepted in standard English, and the spelling straight-laced is more common than strait-laced in the Oxford English Corpus.

 

Oxford Dictionary

strait-laced

strait-laced |streɪtˈleɪst |(also straight-laced ) ▶adjective having or showing very strict moral attitudes: his strait-laced parents were horrified. usage: As an adjective strait means ‘narrow or cramped ’ and ‘strict or rigorous ’: the idea behind strait-laced and straitjacket is of being tightly laced or confined. As strait is now old-fashioned and unfamilar, however, people often interpret it as the more usual word straight. Straight-laced and straightjacket are now generally accepted in standard English, and the spelling straight-laced is more common than strait-laced in the Oxford English Corpus.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

strait-laced

strait-laced adjective his strait-laced parents were horrified: prim and proper, prim, proper, prudish, priggish, puritanical, moralistic, prissy, mimsy, niminy-piminy, shockable, Victorian, old-maidish, schoolmistressy, schoolmarmish, governessy; conventional, conservative, old-fashioned, stuffy, staid, of the old school, narrow-minded; informal goody-goody, starchy, square, fuddy-duddy, stick-in-the-mud; rare Grundyish, Pecksniffian. ANTONYMS permissive, broad-minded.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

strait-laced

str á it-l à ced /-t /形容詞 1 ｟古 ｠〈コルセットなどが 〉きつくひもで締めた .2 (道徳的に )かた苦しい, 厳格な .