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/pɹuːd/ · noun
A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature..
He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.
If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.
Use prude when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prude means A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature..
Common synonyms include prig, goody-goody, puritan, celibacist.
Possible antonyms include libertine, rake.
He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.
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