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Synonyms for prim
prɪm
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Princeton's WordNet
dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee(adj)
affectedly dainty or refined
Synonyms:
mincing, straitlaced, prissy, squeamish, overnice, dainty, puritanical, straightlaced, priggish, prudish, strait-laced, tight-laced, nice, straight-laced, niminy-piminy, victorian, exquisite, twee, square-toedpriggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian(verb)
exaggeratedly proper
"my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Synonyms:
blue(a), mincing, straitlaced, prissy, squeamish, overnice, dainty, puritanical, straightlaced, priggish, prudish, strait-laced, tight-laced, nice, straight-laced, squared-toe, niminy-piminy, victorian, puritanic, twee, square-toedprim(verb)
assume a prim appearance
"They mince and prim"
prim(verb)
contract one's lips
"She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
prim, prim up, prim out(verb)
dress primly
English Synonyms and Antonyms
prim
That which is clean is simply free from soil or defilement of any kind. Things are orderly when in due relation to other things; a room or desk is orderly when every article is in place; a person is orderly who habitually keeps things so. Tidy denotes that which conforms to propriety in general; an unlaced shoe may be perfectly clean, but is not tidy. Neat refers to that which is clean and tidy with nothing superfluous, conspicuous, or showy, as when we speak of plain but neat attire; the same idea of freedom from the superfluous appears in the phrases "a neat speech," "a neat turn," "a neat reply," etc. A clean cut has no ragged edges; a neat stroke just does what is intended. Nice is stronger than neat, implying value and beauty; a cheap, coarse dress may be perfectly neat, but would not be termed nice. Spruce is applied to the show and affectation of neatness with a touch of smartness, and is always a term of mild contempt; as, a spruce serving man. Trim denotes a certain shapely and elegant firmness, often with suppleness and grace; as, a trim suit; a trim figure. Prim applies to a precise, formal, affected nicety. Dapper is spruce with the suggestion of smallness and slightness; natty, a diminutive of neat, suggests minute elegance, with a tendency toward the exquisite; as, a dapper little fellow in a natty business suit.
Synonyms:
clean, cleanly, dapper, natty, neat, nice, orderly, spruce, tidy, trimAntonyms:
dirty, disorderly, dowdy, negligent, rough, rude, slouchy, slovenly, soiled, uncared for, unkempt, untidy
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Dictionary of English Synonymes
prim(a.)
Synonyms:
formal, stiff, precise, starch, starched, strait-laced, in buckram
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#1157 | nice | |
#1809 | clean | |
#3408 | formal | |
#5998 | trim | |
#6856 | victorian | |
#7489 | precise | |
#10534 | neat | |
#12588 | stiff | |
#13127 | exquisite | |
#15244 | spruce | |
#18848 | tidy | |
#20349 | orderly | |
#33359 | prim | |
#36999 | cleanly | |
#42465 | dainty | |
#57569 | dapper | |
#59849 | twee | |
#64241 | natty | |
#82994 | demure | |
#87865 | squeamish | |
#92958 | prissy | |
#108246 | puritanical | |
#108620 | mincing | |
#131048 | starched | |
#142690 | prudish | |
#151198 | unbending | |
#302146 | priggish |
How to use prim in a sentence?
There are no greater skeptics of hedge funds than PRIM.
What people are surprised about me, when they meet me or work with me or hang out with me, is I have a really, really, really dirty sense of humor, people think I'm pretty buttoned-up and prim and proper, but just tell me a joke about balls or something.
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