'Victorian' definitions:
Definition of 'Victorian'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
adjective
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]
adjective
Typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
noun
A person who lived during the reign of Victoria
Definition of 'Victorian'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'victorian'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'Victorian'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- archaic,
- bluenose,
- censorious,
- classical,
- demure,
- fossil,
- fossilized,
- genteel,
- goody-goody,
- Gothic,
- 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,
- Quakerish,
- sanctimonious,
- smug,
- starchy,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- superannuated