Straight laced in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “straight laced” in Hindi is अतिनैष्ठिक, pronounced bahut sakht naitik daRaShTikoN rakhana ya dikhana| — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
Having narrow views on moral matters; prudish.
Widely agreed to have originated (centuries ago) in homophonic confusion (in speech) of strait-laced (“tight-laced”), but long since so widely accepted and used, because having such strongly apparent analogy with straight in its senses relating to orthodoxy and conformity (compare squareness), that it can no longer accurately be called erroneous; instead it is an established alternative form with its own reanalyzed surface analysis. Compare straitjacket with *straightjacket; the latter is still usually regarded as an error, but the relationship is analogous.
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