0 believing or involving the belief that it is important to work hard and control yourself, and that pleasure is wrong or unnecessary: --
He rebelled against his puritanical upbringing.
She is very puritanical about sex.
1 having standards of moral behavior that forbid many pleasures: --
I therefore hope that nobody will accuse me of having a puritanical attitude towards drinking.
In many respects, this country is still extremely puritanical.
I cannot agree with the puritanical attitude that nobody who has had a drink at all can be trusted to drive a car.
Puritanical for the law, he campaigns for the acceptance of his surname and fails in his campaign.
I am surprised to find that he is so puritanical about credit cards and spending.
I do not speak now from a narrow puritanical view.
I do not go along with his rather puritanical view of our duty to society.
I do not take a puritanical view of private expenditure.