Victorian
4 definitions retrieved  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] 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]  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  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "Victorian": 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 Victorian related |
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