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prim

verb

1 prim

Assume a prim appearance.

2 prim

Contract one's lips.

Dutch: tuiten

3 prim

Dress primly.

synonyms: prim out, prim up.

adjective

1 prim

Affectedly dainty or refined.

synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, twee.

2 prim

Exaggeratedly proper.

synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced ... show more.

Roget 855: affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.    not natural, unnatural; ... show more

Roget 878: dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned.    ... show more

Polish: pruderyjny


Moby thesaurus: Quakerish, Victorian, bluenosed, buckram, censorious, ceremonial, ceremonious, chipper, conventional, correct, decorous, demure, formal, genteel, hidebound, in buckram, mid-Victorian, narrow, neat, nice ... show more.

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