Synonyms for Victorian
vɪkˈtɔr i ən, -ˈtoʊr-vic·to·ri·an

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1. Victorianadjective

   a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

   Antonyms:
   improper, modern

2. Victorianadjective

   of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled

   "Victorian morals"

   Synonyms:
   priggish, tight-laced, straitlaced, square-toed, puritanical, straightlaced, straight-laced, strait-laced, prim, prissy, prudish

   Antonyms:
   improper, modern

3. priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorianadjective

   exaggeratedly proper

   "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

   Synonyms:
   blue(a), mincing, straitlaced, prissy, squeamish, overnice, dainty, puritanical, straightlaced, priggish, prudish, strait-laced, tight-laced, nice, straight-laced, squared-toe, niminy-piminy, victorian, prim, puritanic, twee, square-toed

   Antonyms:
   modern, improper

4. Victorianadjective

   typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria

   Synonyms:
   priggish, tight-laced, straitlaced, square-toed, puritanical, straightlaced, straight-laced, strait-laced, prim, prissy, prudish

   Antonyms:
   improper, modern

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1. List of paraphrases for "victorian":

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1. Natalie Cooper:

   We suspected we'd see a bias towards males because science is done by people and people have an inherent male bias, this is especially true as many of our collections come from the Victorian era of macho hunters going out trying to shoot the biggest fiercest creatures for their collections.

2. Daniel Andrews:

   It is a credit to every single Victorian, ... their conviction, compassion, and an absolute determination to get this (vaccine rollout) done.

3. W. Somerset Maugham:

   We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

4. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918):

   The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

5. Daniel Andrews:

   With 0 cases and so much testing, we are able to say that now is the time to open up. Now is the time to congratulate every single Victorian who has stayed the course.