| Main Entry: |
prim |
| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
particular, fussy |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, blue-nose, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly,
conventional,
correct,
dapper*,
decorous,
demure,
fastidious,
formal,
genteel,
good, goody-goody,
nice, nit-picking,
orderly, overmodest,
polite,
precise, priggish, prissy,
proper, prudish, puritanical,
rigid, shipshape, spic-and-span, spruce, stickling,
stiff,
straight, strait-laced, stuffy,
tidy, uncluttered,
upright, well-groomed, wooden
|
Antonyms: |
informal, rumpled
|
* = informal/non-formal usage
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