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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Gothic, Quakerish, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bluenose, censorious, classical, demure, fossil, fossilized, genteel, goody-goody, grown old, hidebound, medieval, mid-Victorian, narrow, of other times, old maid, old-fashioned, old-maidish, old-world, overmodest, petrified, prig, priggish, prim, prissy, prude, prudish, puritan, puritanical, sanctimonious, smug, starchy, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, superannuated

Dictionary Results for Victorian:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

Victorian
    adj 1: of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to
           the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
    2: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
       approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy,
       prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced,
       strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-
       laced, victorian]
    3: typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen
       Victoria
    n 1: a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
   1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time.
      Opposite of modern. [Narrower terms: antebellum;
      fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal),
      stodgy old-fashioned; medieval, mediaeval, gothic;
      old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian;
      old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world] Also See: old,
      past.
      [WordNet 1.5]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a.
   Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England;
   as, the Victorian poets.
   [1913 Webster]

   Victorian period. See Dionysian period, under
      Dyonysian.
      [1913 Webster]

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