| Main Entry: | prissy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular and fussy |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, epicene, fastidious, finicky, genteel, goody-goody, goody-two-shoes, overnice, pansified, persnickety, picky, precious, prim, prim and proper, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, squeamish, stickling, strait-laced, stuffy, tight-laced |
Antonyms: |
informal, unconcerned |
| Main Entry: | stuffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned, prim |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, arrogant, bloated, conventional, dreary, dull, fusty, genteel, humorless, important, magisterial, musty, narrow-minded, pompous, priggish, prim and proper, prissy, prudish, puffy, puritanical, self-important, staid, stilted, stodgy, straitlaced, uninteresting |
Antonyms: |
current, informal, modern, new |
| Main Entry: | bluenosed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | genteel |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, priggish, prim, prim and proper, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced |
| Main Entry: | old-maidish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | genteel |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, affected, aristocratic, artificial, bluenosed, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, cultivated, distingué, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, la-di-da, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, precise, pretentious, priggish, prim, prim and proper, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, refined, respectable, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered |