Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice. [1913 Webster]
Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt. [1913 Webster]
"Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded." [1913 Webster]

"He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

puritanical, adj. often derog. practising or affecting strict religious or moral behaviour.

Derivative

puritanically adv.

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THESAURUS

puritanical

Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Quakerish, Sabbatarian, Trappist, Victorian, Waldensian, abstinent, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, bigoted, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, creedbound, critical, demure, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic, dour, eremitic, evangelical, exacting, fastidious, firm, flagellant, fundamentalist, hard, hidebound, hyperorthodox, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, literalist, literalistic, mendicant, meticulous, mid-Victorian, muscle-bound, narrow, obdurate, obstinate, old-maidish, orthodox, overmodest, particular, perfectionistic, picky, precise, precisianist, precisianistic, priggish, prim, procrustean, prudish, punctilious, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, sanctimonious, scrupulous, selective, self-denying, sensitive, smug, staunch, stiff, stiff-necked, straightlaced, straitlaced, strict, stubborn, stuffy, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, wedded to poverty

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ROGET THESAURUS

puritanical

Affectation

N affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

Asceticism

N asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism, cynicism, austerity, total abstinence, nephalism, mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation, penance, fasting, martyrdom, ascetic, anchoret, anchorite, martyr, Heautontimorumenos, hermit, puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi, ascetic, austere, puritanical, cynical, over-religious, acerbic.

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